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CENTURY 

VACATION 



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TRAVELS AFTER MY OWN NOTION 

At the Sea Shore and Mountains 
of New England 

MRS. r. WILBERFORCK, Kimtor 



Copyright, lyoo, by J. D. Hall & Co. 



1900 



I'lil.lished by 

J. 11. ilAl.l. & COMI'ANV, 

I'rovidence, R. I. 



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Library of Congress 

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PREFACE. 



When the publishers of this book wanted me to do the writing for 
it this \-ear, I naturally hesitated, for I knew pretty well the kind of an 
estimate the ordinary man had for womankind so far as writing and 
preaching goes, so I says I'll write the book under certain conditions, 
which are these : — " If I'm to be the editor of the publication I'm to be 
editor in every sense. There ain't going to be any members of the firm 
take a pair of shears and chop the matter that I have written all to 
pieces just to please somebody's notion of the short-sightedness of 
woman. What I write shall go in just as I write it or none of it goes 
in ! " I've got some notions of my own about the twentieth century that 
I don't want interfered with I So there the agreement rested, and 
there it's got to stand. 

In the following pages I shall try and tell folks how to git health 
and at the same time enjoy their vacation, without interfering with 
others, no matter whether it is at the seashore or the mountains, in a 
hotel, or in some quiet old farm house by forest and stream, after the 
ideas of these latter days that are approaching the front door of another 
century. 

In starting in on this tirade of advice I feel very much as the man 
did who said, "I don't have any trouble in regulating my own con- 
duct, but to keep other folks straight is what bothers me." But I ain't 
going to let the matter bother me any. I've got a duty to perform and 
I'm going to perform it, notwithstanding Toleration says "folks will 
think you're working out of your sphere!" But he's just about as 
encouraging as most husbands, who havn't ever had much ambition 
themselves ! I won't be influenced by him. I shall write the book in 
spite of him I 

MRS. T. WILBERFORCE. 



CONTENTS. 



stories, Anecdotes, Fragments. 

A Story of Southern Chivalry,— Travels in New England 79 

Agnostics, Atheists and Infidels 9 

Cimex Lectularius '7 

Chicago Man and Mountain Paper 63 

Costs so Much '7 

" Dragged out of the Bowels of the Earth " 65 

" Don't Go to the Doctor " 5 

Fishing for Trout '° 

How to Git Vigorous and Enjoy Yourself 5-'7 

Methodists and Creeds 3^ 

Narragansett Sachems *7 

Over Enchanted Waters 29 

Rhode Island Legislators 22 

Roger Williams '9-2° 

The Evangelist '^ 

That Race Horse 55 

"Toleration" Before the Grange 93 

" Toleration " Vomits 4' 

Vaccination ■ 21 

Watering Stock 4° 

Well Meaning, but Awful Disagreeable Folks 35 

Where to Go and How '9 

Why the Bay was called " Narragansett " '9 

Where I First Met Mr. Joshua Billings 61 

Women's Rights 75 

You can Wear Three Suits a Day if You Want to 12 

You Go to Build up Your Constitution, Not an Institution 8 



Summer Resorts. 



Bethlehem 7 > 

Block Island 38 

Bristol a6 

Cape Cod 5' 

Crawford Notch 64 

East Greenwich 42 

Edgartown 45 

Educational Institutions 20-21 

Franconia Notch 7° 

Holderness and Ashland 69 

Index to Time Tables, Hotels, Illustra- 
tions . XLIX 

Intervale 58 

Jackson 58 

Jamestown 33 

Jefferson • 74 

Kearsarge Village 58 

Laconia 66 

Lake Winnipesaukee Region 66 

Littleton 72 

Marion 5' 

Martha's Vineyard 44 



Nantucket 48 

Narragansett Bay 19 

Narragansett Pier 33 

Newport 3° 

New Hampshire 53 

North Conway 54 

North Woodstock 70 

Oakland Beach and Buttonwoods 49 

Other New England resorts 51 

Providence 19 

Plymouth 44 

Rye Beach and Isle of Shoals 74 

Saunderstown 28 

Seaconnet Point 43 

Sugar Hill and Fraconia 73 

Summer Resorts in Maine 96 

The Glen, N. H 60 

The Weirs 67 

Whitefield, N. H 73 

White Mountain Carriage Road 62 

Wickford and Barbour's Heights 27 

Watch Hill 42-49 



How to Git Vigorous and Enjoy Yourself. 



It doesn't matter whether you are a book-keeper or a house-keeper, 
a merchant, mechanic or manufacturer, there comes a time, (generally 
once a year), when you find yourself worn out, with your nervous energy 
laboring at a tremendously low ebb. Then's the time to stop work and 
go somewhere. Doesn't make much difference where it is, so long as 
you can git away from your customary environments — or in other 
words, away from your best and dearest friends, who are foreverlastingly 
wanting you to strain up and go to some public gathering, take part in 
some charity ball, or go with a crowd on a junketing tour to New York 
or Chicago, just when you feel so exhausted that you would like to git 
outside of the earth if only for a day, just to see how much comfort 
and peace there is in being alone. 

Do)it go to the doctor — avoid him as you would a pestilence. Land 
sakes! he'll send you to bed and use up all the money you've laid aside 
for recuperation. 'Taint medicine you need, but rest and a little good 
judgment. Of course doctors are useful at times; I wouldn't be with- 
out my family physician for all the world, for the sake of family tradi- 
tions if nothing more, any more than I would a watch dog, but goodness 
sakes 1 watch dogs are not wanted on all occasions! It's when real 
tramps and thieves are 'round that they are most needed. 

In acute diseases, the doctor ought to be encouraged, but in chronic 
diseases and that ordinary tired feeling brought on by overwork, I'd as 
soon take a brovvnbread pill of my own make as anybody elses. 

I don't want to insult a |)hysician as one man has done in trying to 
describe a duck to a friend of his, when he said that " his feathers made 
a good tough bed, that he cjuacks like a root doctor, and his bill resembles 
a veterinary surgeon's ! " I don't believe in making light of anybody's 
profession in that way, but I have often wished the time would come 
when doctors would have more conscience about their charges. 

A hundred doctors generally have a hundred different opinions, 
and so I havn't consulted any of them for this occasion. As I said be- 
fore, medicine isn't what you want, and you don't need some one to 
enlarge on your symptoms, nor a Christian scientist to tell you that 



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nothing is the matter and to go right back to work ! Nobody ever said 
"presto" and made a new set of nerves all at once, I don't care what 
class of fanatics he belongs to. 

Pack up your grip-sack or trunk and go to the seashore or the 
mountains, or to both. That's the first thing to do. 

If you go to a hotel that some friend has recommended, you may 
feel satisfied with the place at once, but if it has not been endorsed, in 
your dispairing condition you may not at first feel just pleased with all 
of your surroundings and accommodations. But that will be nothing 
strange, for you were not contented at home. These conditions will all 
right themselves as you begin to improve in health, and it will help you 
amazingly if you will only call to mind the hotel that Mr. Artemus Ward 
stopped at in Arizona, where they gave him a bag of oats for a [lillow. 
Artemus said that he wouldn't have minded it so much if it hadn't given 
him the nisrhtmare so all night lonjr ! In the morning the landlord said 
to him : " How do you feel old boss, hay.'" and all that Mr. Ward 
could say was that "he felt his oats! " 

When you git settled down don't try the first night to show the 
other guests how smart you are at playing whist. I knew a merchant 
of Ikiston, where their diet is supposed to be mostly literature and east 
winds, who went to the mountains of New Hampshire expressly to 
recover his health. First thing he did was to begin to play whist, and 
keej) it up until lo or ii o'clock every night. Every morning he would 
tell me that he must stop it for it made him feel worse every time he 
played. But the next night he would be playing again, and so he kept 
it up until I finally got disgusted and told him I believed he would play 
cards if he thought he was going to be sent down tt) Perdition in the 
morning on account of it! And I guess I said some more things that 
I may have to answer for, but it was a wonderful relief for me to say 
something. I don't know as it's any worse to say what you think than 
it is to think what you dasn't say, if by speaking up it does some good! 
That man's experience is the experience of ninety-nine cases out of a 
hundred who go to hotels for rest. 

The best way is to make it your business to know nobody but the 
landlord, and follow it up for two weeks. If everybotiy wants to tliink 
you a recluse, so much the better, for then they will keep away. 

Take your meals regular, and don't try to see liow much but liow 
little you can eat. Franklin says " If you would live long eat less," and 
there is a world of truth in it. 

Don't ever Cdinmcnt (in fond that is placed on the table, nor joke 



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about it, for it is a piece of bad manners. T'other day I heard a drum- 
mer say that he'd had hash for breakfast and he'd felt like everything 
all day ! Now while that ain't very bad, nevertheless it's comment. 
I've known some folks to sit down to a table and find fault with the 
service and about everything that was brought on, until they found out 
that the other folks at the same table thought everything was about 
right, and then they'd all of a sudden change their minds and feel satis- 
fied that they had got into such a good hotel. I suppose they did it to 




"There's more mystery connected with this okl .Stone Mill at Newport than it's wiith." 

make folks think they'd travelled, but that's dreadful poor evidence in 
my opinion. 

Select carefully the kind of food that fits your stomach best and is 
the most nourishing — you are the best judge of that if you will use the 
brain that is in your head, that was designed to be used in this lino as 
well as in business. One person out of ten can drink pure Java coffee, 
but the other nine ought not to use it. It stimulates the nerves into 
such an abnormal condition, it will require months of fasting to cure. 
Of course you want a hot drink in the morning, and to satisfy this crav- 



8 TVVENTIKTU C]<:NTURY VACATION. 

ing, order cereal coffee, which is nothing but nourishing liquid food, 
doing no harm but a great deal of good. Postum cereal, and other 
brands of food coffee have done more, during the past year, in my 
opinion, to make healthy men, women and children, than all the medi- 
cinal compounds in the universe. 

If you have got run down from drinking liquor, of course you'll 
have to stop that, and if the habit has got a firm hold on you, there ain't 
no sure power on earth that can stop you from drinking. The only 
sure way is to git your spirit down on its knees before the Creator of 
your body and soul, and tell Him that you want Him to help you to 
stop the habit, and if you are in earnest, He'll do it. 

I recommend pure milk in place of all liquors, but that ain't saying 
that pure spirits don't do some folks some good, for they do. But it 
was designed only for medicine, same as opium and other pizen drugs. 
Don't be a slave to your appetite! I believe there is more intem- 
perance in eating than there is in drinking liquors. 

Go to bed at 9 o'clock every night, and sleep at least an hour every 
afternoon. After your daily nap, go out into the fields and forest and 
study nature. Don't try to study all there is all at once ; it's too big a 
job. Just sit down by some tree and learn a lesson of its make-up and 
staid and contented qualities, and notice that it don't worry because it 
can't walk all over the universe, but is satisfied to be just what it was 
designed to be by the Almighty, and thrusts its roots deep down into 
the earth in one place where it can git the kind of nourishment that 
will make a giant oak or a stately pine as grand and substantial as the 
eternal hills. If you can't git profit out of such a study, you couldn't 
git health and happiness if it was dealt out to you in bucket fulls. 

Not only from the trees do we git lessons in nature, but from the 
brooks and rocks, the flowers and leaves, and from the animal kingdom, 
and they all do us good. Last week I was telling my son what a lesson 
there was in a leaf, and after I'd got through and felt that I'd done my 
duty by making a good impression upon his receptive soul, he spoke up 
and says, "Mother, there may be great lessons in a leaf, but I think I've 
got bigger and more lasting lessons from a switch !" I told him to go 
right out to the barn and hel]) his father thrash I How boys will per- 
vert things. 

Don't go to church until you git well rested. Vou go to build 
uj) your constitution instead of a country church. Not that a church 
isn't all right, for it's the grandest institution on earth, but you can 
attend \.o that later. E\-erybody nectls to have before them constantly 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 9 

the example and faith of Jesus Christ to keep them from stumblinc;- 
into folly and waywardness by the contaminating influences of agnostics, 
atheists and infidels, which you are sure to meet more or less in all 
public places. It's my opinion, however, that all of them put together 
havn't got so much wisdom as an ordinary bandy-legged pismire. If it 
wasn't for Christian society they couldn't carry on business with se- 
curity and safety. But they can't see that with their blind eyes. 

An agnostic ain't any more like an infidel than an infidel is like an 




At the Spring. — " How girls will train soniL-tiiiies. " 

atheist, and the whole three bunched together and run through a thresh- 
ing machine would come out jest about the same kind of chaff, without 
real wheat germ enough to keep a hog alive mor'n a week at the long- 
est. An agnostic is a man who is very enthusiastic over something that 
he don't know anything about. An infidel is a being who hasn't got 
any religion of his own that's worth anything, and he doesn't believe 
anybody else has. An atheist ! Well, he's got the blackest countenance 
that you can imagine. He's worse than a pessimist, although not half 
so fretful and annoying. When a real atheist eats an apple he spits out 



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the juice and swallows the core. After a time this gives him the dyspep- 
sia, and then he says there ain't any God ! He never gives any satisfac- 
tory reason, and generally repents before he dies — if he gits a chance. 

I don't want to preach a sermon, but want to see if my orthodo.xy 
is all right. 

If you think your ancestors came over in the Mayflower, and feel 
that you have a little more of an honorable descent or pedigree than 
some folks, try to be charitable, and at the same time prove what you 
say, for of course you know that that old historical boat has got to be 
pretty heavily loaded now, and some people will be uncharitable enough 
to think you are mistaken. And then if your position in life tends to 
make you proud and vain even to affectation, if you want to be cured 
and happen to be at the seashore, just git up a party and hire some old 
fisherman to take you all out in his boat fishing, right after a south-east 
blow, or to help him pull up his lobster pots. After a little while you 
will naturally be seasick, and then your cure will begin. Mr. Billings 
says he never knew a man to put on airs when he wanted to vomit. 

You can often convince yourself that you are not half as set in 
your way or as sincere as you think you are, if some little thing only 
comes up to prove it. Why, I've known of a good prayer meeting 
being broken up by the dinner bell ! Which goes to show, as women 
have always said, that you can git at some men's hearts through their 
stomachs quicker than any other way. But that's natural. You can 
convert a tramp easier after he's been fed than before, unless there's a 
wood pile in sight. 

Don't go fishing for some time after you think you are well, for it's 
a dreadful nerve exhausting exercise, unless everything moves along 
smoothly. Then again, it gits you in the habit of exaggerating, and you 
can't afford to do that until you are strong enough to endure it. 

I remember once when I was in Jackson, N. H., I went out trout 
fishing along with my daughters in the Glen Ellis river. You needn't 
be astonished at this, for woman has just as much right to go fishing as 
man has, and she's enough sight more skillful and patient, and she 
doesn't go round bragging about a lot of little fish as if nobody else 
could do such things. 

Well, Toleration staid at the hotel because I suppose he was 
ashamed to be seen fishing along with his wife, but time was when he 
thought 'twas the dreadfulest nicest kind of sport and comfort to go 
fishing along with me and sister Jane. But that was before we were 
married. Matrimony seems to bring some folks to a sen.se i)f shame 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. ii 

and discomfort for every sensible thing that they ever did or wanted 
to do. 

We went down stream, catching quite a number of sizable fish, and 
when we had got about half way to Goodrich Falls, we found quite a 
sharp bend in the river, where there was an eddy and good deep water, 
filled with submerged rocks, which I calkerlated was a good place for 
trout to hide under. So we sot to fishing, and the water made so much 
noise a running along, the fish couldn't hear us very well even if we 
didn't keep very still. We had caught a half dozen out of this one 
hole, when I accidently broke my pole. But I didn't give up. I cut a 
birch rod, tied six feet of line to it, put on a good tempting bait, and 
stepping out on to a bowlder a little way from shore I dropped my hook 
in just beyond a large rock a few feet farther out, just as the worm was 
wriggling and twisting to beat all, and it hadn't any mor'n got settled 
down to the bottom before — snap, siois/i, i^'/iin; — something caught hold 
of the end of that line that made me as nervous as a witch in a second ! 
Of course I dasn't let him run because I hadn't any reel, and so I 
gathered myself together and snaked him out jest as a boy pulls out a 
pickerel or a mud pout! The way he struggled and held on was a cau- 
tion, but finally I swung him over my head and landed him full ten feet 
up on the embankment, and when he struck he fell off the hook ! The 
bank was shelving, and every bound he made he got nearer the water, 
and seeing that I might lose him I called to Madalene to " sto/> thcjis/i" 
but instead of stopping him she jest stood and looked, perfectly be- 
wildered ! Then I says to Hattie, "for conscience sakes don't let that 
trout git into the river ! I'd rather lose my pocket book ! " And there 
she stood jest as unconcerned as if there wasn't anything uncommon 
happening, without budging an inch ! Finally I knew something must 
be done right off, so I threw my pole into the water and jumped to the 
shore, sprawling around as gracefully as a woman of fifty can. and 
landed in front of the trout jest in time to have him land in my hands 
at the water's edge, but he was so slippery he slid out of my fingers into 
the water and away he went. Well, if ever I felt that life wasn't wuth 
livin' it was then ! Seemed as if he weighed five pounds when I inillcd 
him out, but probably he wouldn't weigh mor'n two, but he looked 
as big as he felt ; and to lose such a big trout as that would discourage 
most anybody. I sputtered and scolded, and finally sot down on a rock, 
and there I sot for mor'n an hour jest a thinkin'. When I finally come 
to again, I says, "we intended to stay all summer, but I guess we'd 
better £0 home in the mornine:." 



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In the morning I thought how foolish it was to let such a little 
thing upset me, and so decided to stay six weeks longer, and we did. 
But there is something dreadfully unnerving about fishing, so don't do 
it until you are strong. Such an experience is enough to give a run- 
down constitution nervous prostration. 

After you have ignored e\-erybody, dieted, slept and communed 
with nature for two weeks, you will find you have stored up a whole 
reservoir of nervous energy that you can draw from for the next year to 
come if you don't git foolish the remainder of the summer, and let it all 
out again. You'll forgit all about how run down you felt when you came, 
and you'll keep gaining all the time. Then you can begin to notice 
folks and git acquainted if you feel like it. You can stay down in the 
parlor in the evening and enjoy the social life, and study human nature 
if you want to, but don't sit up later than 9.30 o'clock all summer long, 
no matter how well you feel. 

If you are a young school girl of course you've brought along a lot 
of nice clothes, and you'll want to wear them. Well there ain't no law 
agin it. You can wear three suits a day if you want to. And I know 
of lots of girls and young ladies that are not so very young, that like to 
wear a lot of nice clothes at summer hotels, too. Well, there ain't no 
law agin them wearing all they want to. Why, bless you souls it's 
enough sight better to have some ambition to look well than it is to be 
careless with your wardrobe. 

There ain't anything that pleases me more than to see young ladies 
dressed up in all the most stylish ferbeloughs that their parents can 
afford, and to see them promenading through the stately hallways, up 
and down the broad piazzas, or along the seashore taking their constitu- 
tionals, or out riding in a carriage with a span of nice horses, (provided 
the tails of the horses havn't been chopped off), with their ribbons fly- 
ing and their faces a smiling, or sailing in a yacht, looking as pretty as a 
bouquet of flowers. I say there ain't anything more beautiful, unless it is 
the girl who can't afford many changes, but still wants the benefits and 
the pleasures of the seashore or the mountains the same as other folks, 
whose cheeks have been touched by nature's rose tints, with a face full of 
an expression of kindness, and with such a glow of health that wherever 
she goes all are attracted by her loveliness, although she wears only one 
plain outing suit of white flannel the whole season through. Whenever 
she comes into our i^rcsence in the parlor, somehow there seems to be a 
whole appletree full of blossoms shook out so that the whole room is 
filled l)y their fragrance. Mow I do like to see such girls and come 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 



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under their beautiful intluence. It helps old folks as well as young 
folks. She shows that she has been brought up by parents that have 
thrown around her that magic circle of love that nobody dast encroach 
upon, and that she has honored her father and mother enough to live 
up to the high ideal of womanhood that they have taught her to live. 
Such a daughter is wuth mor'n all the titles of Europe, with their 
estates thrown in, and a far greater blessing. 

There are a good many daughters and sons that do all in their 
power to make their dear old mother and father as comfortable and 
happy as they possibly can be — at the poor house. But the kind of 




"Go out into the fields and forest and study nature." 
(Scene near Lake Wiiinipesaukee.) 

children that I have been telling about will never allow any 
to happen to their parents, thank the Loi'd. 

The best society of most hotels is the elderly people 
every year as long as they have strength left to come with, 
anything that interests me it is to listen to the counsel of an 
man or an old lady. Is there anything more beautiful ? 
seen just what there is in this world and know all about it, 
are willing to impart their knowledge to others the young 
to listen with attentive ears, and profit by their e.vperience 



such thing 

who come 
If there is 
old gcntle- 
They have 
and if they 
folks ought 
. I always 



14 TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 

had the most profound respect and love for the aged. There is another 
class in a summei' hotel that can make things interesting, and that is 
the middle aged folks. They generally are very social and want to 
make everybody happy, because by so doing they enjoy more real 
pleasure themselves. But once in a while you will meet some one who 
seems as distant and far away as a person does that you see through 
the wrong end of an opera glass. But it may not be all their fault, for 
you may be walking in the opposite direction as fast as they are walk- 
ing their way ! If you would both git right down to the Golden Rule the 
distance would be obliterated before you knew it. If some one doesn't 
speak to you, if you stop to think you will probably remember that you 
didn't speak to them, and that's as broad as it is long, and a little 
broader. 

The more everybody tries to have everybody else enjoy all of the 
sports that are going on in a public hotel the better it is all 'round, and 
particularly for the landlord and the landlady. If I pay for my suite of 
rooms I am entitled to be as exclusive in them as I please, but if I try 
to git up some little stingy clannish circle for entertainment in the 
public parlors, inviting only my favorites to join in the sport, I am like 
the man that prayed for "me and my wife, my son John and his wife, 
us four and no more. Amen." Then I'm ungenerous, narrow minded 
and encroaching on the rights of the hotel management, whoso duty it 
is to see that all of their guests have equal rights in their hotel so far as 
entertainment of a public nature is concerned, as well as in other public 
privileges, and anybody who ain't willing to conform to their rules and 
regulations ought to be sent home in disgrace. But there ain't many 
such cases as these, and it's a blessed good thing there ain't. Riches 
and poverty are both so passing that it ain't wuth while to let either of 
them stand in the way of our happiness and that of those about us. 

Everybody may not agree with these sentiments, for I am well 
aware, as one writer says that " people of good sense are those whose 
opinions agree with ours." But the truth will ])rove itself without any- 
body to defend it, and wliat I've said is the truth. 

It's an easy thing to be kind and polite, and that's all that is re- 
quiretl to git along under all circumstances, although one gentleman 
says that " some folks are naturally so cross and crabbed that it is an 
insult to them to ask them to be jiolite. Vou might as well ask a 
dog to take the crook out of his tail and be a gentleman ! " But I 
don't believe everything that I hear. My confidence in mankind is a 
great consolation to me. 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 



IS 



Every person who is trying to git benefit pliysically as well as men- 
tally, at any summer resort, should make it a practice to take a ride 
every morning or afternoon along the seashore or among the hills and 
mountains, for by this pastime you are taking in oxygen faster than by 
any other means, and oxygen is life. A bicycle is all right for robust 
people, but for folks trying to build up it is too violent exercise. If you 
haven't an automobile then a horse and hugg)' is the right thing. 

If after you git to feeling well and want to continue that way, try and 
not let little things trouble you, and always try to be contented, never 




' I stuck my head out of the window of the above train and took a picture 
of Crawford Notch, with my camera." 



allowing yourself to git into the habit of criticising things and condi- 
tions that you are sure to see all about you. "A contented mind is a 
joy forever." But you can't be contented if you criticise everything 
you see from Alpha to Omega. For sometimes you bring reproach 
upon yourself, and then you are all stirred up and git hystericky. 

Why, I've known women before now to criticise the wardrobe of 
some other woman, and particularly their hat or bonnet, laughing and 
poking fun about it, when actually the woman that was alaughing had 
on a bonnet that must have made the Goddess of Fashion shed tears ! 
Better remember that we don't see ourselves as others see us. When 



i6 TWENTIETH CEXTURV VACATION. 

we want to poke fun we'd better ask some friend of ours to look us over 
critically before we begin. If somebody wants to dress so that they'll 
look like all possess, let them go on with their notions ! Can't you see 
that the contrast will be greater between your finer tastes and theirs .' 
Comparisons are all that show off well dressed folks successfully. If 
we all had the same tastes we'd be miserable. But, after all, dress and 
beauty don't amount to everything. I've seen some of the homeliest 
and oddest mortals that you could find on top of the earth that could 
paint beautiful pictures or sing songs that would charm your soul. 

But it's human nature to follow along in the same old rut that nine- 
tenths of the people are a travelling in so far as fashion is concerned. 
If fashion dictates a sugar scoop shape of a hat it's got to be worn, and 
if it calls for a great bunch of lace and bugle trimmings, that must be 
worn too, no matter whether it's becoming or not. But men are just as 
bad as women ! Sometimes I think they're worse. I never could 
understand how rich men, some that call themselves real swells or 
dudes, young and old alike, bald-headed and those that part their hair 
in the middle — I say I never could understand how 'twas that they 
could order their tailors to iron a crease in the front and back side of 
their pantaloons so as to make them look for all the world as if they 
were ready-made right out of a Jew clothing house! Well, it goes to 
show, as Mr. Shakespeare says, "What fools these mortals be." I sup- 
pose if fashion called for paper collars, they'd wear them just as spruce 
as can be, and call themselves leaders of fashion. 

You needn't be alarmed about the comfort that most summer hotels 
afford, for I've travelled all over the seashore and mountain resorts ever 
since 1881, stopping at houses charging all the way from 58.00 a week 
to S30.00 a week, and among them all I never slept in a poor bed yet, 
and every one of them was neat and clean. I wouldn't sleep on 
feathers if they'd give me the feathers with the geese thrown in, but 
you are never afflicted with anything of that kind. They use mostly 
mattresses that are cool and comfortable, and of course good geese 
feathers are a lu.xury for pillows. I understand they've got up a new- 
fangled notion for a mattress that you can blow up with air that is 
wonderfully comfortable. When you sleep on one of these you are 
actually floating on air, and no mistake. They're got up by a concern 
in Providence called the Mechanical Fabric Company, I believe, and 
they sell lots of them for camp life. I should think they'd be wonder- 
fully good for that, because they can be carried round so easy. 

Now what I've had to say about summer hotels doesn't apply to all 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 17 

commercial houses, for I've known of a numerous number of them 
to be afflicted with ciniix lectularius, which, being interpreted, means 
that class of hemipterous insects vulgarly called "bedbugs." I 
like the scientific name the best, because it does away with that creep- 
ing sensation, and is just as fatal to the bug. Where there's real clean- 
liness these nocturnal pests can't exist, and that's the reason they're 
never seen at summer hotels. I don't like to talk about these filthy 
things, but I want you to start out with a clear understanding and an 
uncorrupted imagination. 



COSTS SO MUCH. 



There are hundreds of folks that think they can't go to summer 
resorts because they think it costs so much to stay there. Now that 
isn't so. You haven't got to cover everything you want with a dollar 
bill half so much as you think you have. You can git board at nearly 
all watering places at a price to fit almost anybody's pocket book. If 
you are a millionaire of course you will want to go to the larger hotels 
where they have an e.xtensive service and all of the lu.xuries that money 
can buy, and you know that you can always find them everywhere. If you 
are a person of moderate means you can find plenty of good hotels that 
will feed you on just as good food and just as well cooked for $10.00 and 
$12.00 a week if you stay any length of time, as if you paid $18.00 and 
$30.00 per week. And for the young lady clerks and school teachers 
there are good accommodations for them at good hotels for from $7.00 
to $9.00 per week. And there are numerous boarding houses and farm 
houses where one can git good home comforts with a good and well 
spread table for $5.00 a week. Goodness knows these prices are low 
enough. There is scarcely anybody who can't save up twenty-five dol- 
lars by which to take a vacation for their health's sake somewhere in 
New England whei-e travel is not very expensive. I could always hire 
a good turnout at a summer resort for less money than I always had to 
pay in the city. \'ou can live as reasonable at summer resorts as you 
can at home if you use judgment, outside of the expense of travelling. 
Most people go to summer resorts to git needed rest and recreation and 
some entertainment, and such folks are always benefited, but if ever you 
make up your mind, be you rich or jioor, that you intend to lead a con- 
tinual life of pleasure you won't git the thing you are looking for. To 
such folks I recommend the following recipe, which comes from a friend, 
(2) 



i8 TWENTIETH CEXTrRV VACATION. 

and which he says is a great help to folks that are inclined to a life of 
ease: — "To one ounce of pleasure add one pound of repentance!" I 
think myself it will help lots of folks. 

Don't try to rush matters in trying to enjoy yourself and to git well 
again. Making a lot of noise and cutting a great figure don't help mat- 
ters, and they make other folks uncomfortable. I used to know a man 
in prayer meetin' who would say "amen " a.pd "glory to God" so often 
and so loud that he disturbed everybody else present. When he had 
got about so far, Brother James used to go round to his seat and ask 
him for a dollar for missions — no more "aniens;" he'd be as mum as 
could be all the rest of the evening. He was just a shouting to hear 
himself and have others listen. Be sincere when you say anything, and 
then you won't be put down so easy. But then, don't overdraw things 
when you talk, for that brings up comparisons that are sometimes not 
pleasant, and shows up things in a different light. I heard a young lady 
evangelist not long ago in Providence, who was a dreadful interest- 
ing preacher, but one evening she said that if she had not done just as 
God wanted her to, she might have been simply the wife of a man in a 
common sphere, and never risen above it. But when she said that, she 
couldn't have remembered the young lady who married a common 
farmer, and settled down in a log cabin on Nolin's creek in Kentuck)-, 
and moving from there farther west, she lived in several other homes, 
but all of them were log cabins, and some of them had only mother 
earth for a floor. She had few household effects, but she had the same 
hope for better things as all girls have, but she never realized them. 
She was a Christian girl, and the mother of a son and daughter. When 
the son was nine years old she died and went to heaven, and that son 
when he became President of the United States said, "All that I am, 
and all that I hope to be I owe to my angel mother." I want to know 
if that ain't a crown of glory as great as any girl in any sphere can ever 
hope for.' To be honored with a son like Abraham Lincoln, who has 
written the name of his mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, on the pages of 
history so that it can never be erased, is a monument that few women 
can expect to have. No, it doesn't do to make too lucid comparisons, nor 
to ignore lowly conditions. Of course the girl didn't mean any harm, 
for she is one of the best Christian girls I ever heard talk. 



Where to Go and How. 



It ain't my duty to tell of all of the beauty spots of the earth's sur- 
face, but I propose to tell of some of the most attractive places to be 
found on the earth, principally in New England along the Atlantic 
coast, and in New Hampshire, among the White Mountains. I shall 
begin with the Indian fishing grounds, — 

NARRAGANSETT BAY. 

Now, this body of water was evidently named in honor of the Nar- 
ragansett Indians who inhabited some of its islands and most of the 
west coast. Who named it nobody seems to know, but it sort of grew 
into existence I suppose by common consent. While we're sure we've 
got the name, there's nobody in particular to blame. 

I have a notion that the Narragansett Sachem, Canonicus, or his 
nephew, Miantonomi, had something to do in the way of encouraging 
the historian to help along the continuance of this name Narragansett, 
because they wanted the name of their famous tribe hitched on to some 
salt body because they thought it would be better preserved on account 
of the salt, and so it has been known as Narragansett Bay ever since 
those famous chieftains passed away. As there doesn't seem to be any- 
body that can successfull}' deny this statement, I suppose it will have to 
stand as a matter of history the same as the story of the Old Stone 
Mill and the yarn about the Norsemen, both of which are more or less 
true, but ])rincipally less in my opinion. 

The most considerable place of business on this bay is Providence, 
at the extreme head of the bay, and if you are a stranger here on busi- 
ness, be sure to call it a city before you leave town, if you expect to 
have your orders filled promptly, for everybody here is very proud of 
the place, and because it has a population of some 170,000 (after annex- 
ing a town or two), of course it is entitled to that distinction. 

That reverend gentleman, Roger Williams, who was banished from 
Massachusetts colony because they thought him a heretic, is the man 
who settled the place and called it Providence in 1636. It wasn't many 
years afterward that he had the opjiortunity of getting square with the 
people around Boston and Salem, by saving them from being scalped. 



20 TWENTIETH CENTURY \-ACATION. 

every one of them, by the Indians. He learned of the plot against 
them, and sending a warning to them of their danger, saved their lives 
and their settlements. 

The worst part of his being driven out of Salem was the fact that 
he had to leave his dear wife Mary behind with two children, one of 
them only three months old. Just think of the sufferings of that poor 
woman ! I can never forgive those folks for such an act as that. 

What a man Mr. Williams was! He said "Kings and magistrates 
must be considered invested with no more power than the people be- 
treat them with." And he lived up to that notion as long as he remained 
on earth. He knew how to crowd into the smallest State in America 
the biggist soul liberty that the world has ever known. 

Mr. Williams established free and religious liberty here, for he 
wanted folks to git nearer their Creator evidently without so many rigid 
notions of creed, and with less graven images in folkes' makeup. But 
still we've got a few Close-Communion Baptists left, and while we never 
got so far as to hang witches because the smell of brimstone was at 
times noticed in the neighborhood, nevertheless we incarcerated that 
excellent gentleman, Governor Dorr, in the old State prison that used 
to stand on the grounds where the State Normal School is now located, 
just for advocating in a practical way the notions of good government 
that are now in use to-day throughout the whole State. The poor man 
evidently died of a broken heart. Governor King was then the boss of 
things, but to-day the name of Dorr is on the lips and in the hearts 
of almost ex'crybody, while King's name is sometimes but seldom 
mentioned. 

As a city \\c brag of our schools and colleges, because they are 
considerable, the same as most other New England cities that are up to 
date. Brown University was established in 1764, and the number of 
pupils average about one thousand yearly, including both the young 
ladies and young gentlemen. As a university it stands very high, way 
up on College Hill, the highest point in the city. Some of the biggest 
men in the country got their learning at this college. 

The Friends' School comes next in importance, and was established 
in 1784, and is one of the best institutions of learning in the United 
States. The boys and girls that go here are cared for in a good board- 
ing house that is connected with the school. A lot of our great men 
and women got their early education at this school — in fact many of 
them never felt the necessity of going to any other school to equip them 
f(ir their life work, and that's wuth talking abmit. 



tvventii:th century vacation. 



21 



Our business college, the Bryant and Stratton, is one of the best. 
Business men all prefer pupils that graduate from this school in prefer- 
ence to those that come from other places. If a boy or girl has got any 
business qualities, Mr. Stowell will put them through the sprouts and 
bring it to the surface, and he won't thrash it out of them, either. If a 
boy has got to be flogged to make him know something he won't amount 
to such a great sight. Beats all how the young ladies in this school can 
mark down everything as fast as you can talk, and then turn round to a 
machine and in a few minutes hand you a sheet of paper all printed 




" Roger Williams Park is a beautiful place." 

with everything you have said I 'T wont do to talk much nonsense afore 
such folks if you don't want it repeated. Girls are made as useful in 
business now-a-days as boys. 

Our new public library now stands among the best in the world, and 
we are amazingly proud of it. It contains thousands of the best books 
ever got together under one roof. 

We have the same notion about the school chiklren going to school 
as they have in some other cities. They mustn't start until they have 
been vaccinated. Now Mr. Justice Gaynor of Brooklyn, N. V., says 
that "compulsory vaccination is illegal," yet folks think they must obey 
the State law or city ordinances that was got up mostly by the doctors, 



22 TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 

and they keep putting that nasty virus into the arms of their children 
whose blood was as pure as could be before that thing was done. Time 
will come when the practice will be considered as one of the relics of 
barbarism, the same as punching a hole through a little girl's ear so that 
she can wear an ear-ring made of brass or gold. The African woman 
goes one step further and puts a ring in her nose, the same as a bull 
has ; I'm glad to see mothers of the last one or two generations refusing 
to do this thing just to help along the jewelry business. 

Like every other city we've got the best fire department and police 
force in the world. We have good hospitals and asylums for the deaf^ 
the infirm, the insane, the aged, the children, and for the lazy. Our 
ministers are mostly orthodox. Our doctors, mostly allopaths, homeo- 
paths, and some Thomsonians, have just the same ambition I suppose as 
they have in all other cities, — $2.00 a visit. 

General Washington and General Lafayette paid a visit to our city 
once, which made us feel so proud we've lived on the reputation that 
their visit gave us, for many years. Now that that has got to be an old 
story we've begun to put up new buildings, and improv^e the sewerage 
and the highways mor'n ever before. Our State House, the new one I 
mean of course, is quite an e.xpensive one, being built of white marble, 
and is large enough for the State of Texas. It is hoped the structure 
will be done next winter when the men folks, the voters, will be enabled 
to put men into the legislative body from the farming districts and other 
places, that will accord well with the new palace ; who will fully appre- 
ciate the statuary and the appropriateness of the architecture, so as to 
quiet the anxiety of their constituents, who can only see the tax end 
of things. Our legislators are all a good sensible looking lot of men, and 
I have no doubt that they are real honest. I can't say whether they're 
as "wise as serpents " or not, but I'm satisfied they're as "harmless as 
doves." 

The City of Providence is probably the best in New England for 
people to stop in who want to be in a busy place where they can take 
advantage of boating and fishing on the Bay, and enjoy a sail on the 
steamers that ply between Newport and this city, to Bristol, Warren, 
Fall River, Seaconnet Point, the islands in the Bay. Block Island, 
New York, etc. There are numerous family hotels located on quiet 
streets in the city, where prices are reasonable, and many parties take 
advantage of these conveniences instead of going " down river " to live. 

Of course living on the Bay is the thing for most folks that want to 
stay for the summer in these parts, and there's a numerous number of 



24 TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 

good summer hotels on both sides of the Bay at various points all the 
way to Newport — a distance of thirty miles, — and hundreds of cottages, 
some of them real nice and homelike, while others are more like a barn 
without the hay loft thrown in. 

Of course everybody knows that Rhode Island is the home of the 
original clambake, and the various resorts that were constructed 
e.xpressly for these clam dinners, are crowded by thousands of people 
that go down the bay for the day for a good time and for one of these 
dinners. Transportation is cheap, ten to twenty cents taking you to 
any or all of them by boat or by electric cars. 

If you want to go to Newport or Block Island, take the steamer 
Mount Hope at the dock of the Providence, Fall River and Newport 
Steamboat Company at the foot of Hay street, and the first point of 
interest that you reach after passing through the drawbridge is Field's 
Point, where the clam dinners are served in the highest style of the art. 

The ne.xt point of interest is Squantum, where the club house by 
that name is located. Composed mostly of men whose business has 
been pretty good or those who have had a fortune left them. I am told 
it's quite an expensive organization. Here's where the President or any 
of the big men are feasted if they come to Providence in the summer 
time. They have the greatest kind of clam dinners here, with all the 
fixin's, with side dishes of one thing and another, and apollinaris and 
ice water. 

Next comes Silver Spring, which in its palmiest days was a wonder- 
fully interesting spot, and is still important. Great place for summer 
cottages. Directly opposite Starvegoat Island. I suppose this island 
was so named because it is not large enough to support a goat. I'm not 
authority for this, but I guess it's true enough. 

The next in order is the Pomham Club, something like the 
Squantum, but not so rich I am told. Its location is on high land over- 
looking the Bay, probably one of the best sites on the water front. 

Next comes Riverside, a large settlement of summer residences 
with wharf accommodations. 

The next point of interest is Crescent Park, another clam-bake 
resort, where many days 25,000 people are fed on clams. Beats all what 
a hold these clams do have on folks, don't it ? This is the place where 
so many societies of various kinds go for their annual trainings, and they 
train pretty high sometimes, and have a real good time. 

PVom this point you sail along by Gaspee Point, where His Magisty's 
ship lay at anchor one dark night, and everybody on board had gone to 



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26 twp:ntieth century vacation. 

sleep but one sentinel, and he must have been about half asleep, or else 
he would have heard the boats that came down from Providence, filled 
with ambitious youths, for the purpose of scuttling the ship and captur- 
ing her crew. But he didn't hear them, or not until it was too late, for 
when the Gaspee began to sink, then all hands were called on deck and 
ordered into small boats to go ashore. When they landed they found a 
numerous number of Yankees all ready to welcome them, and they were 
all taken prisoners. 'Twas dreadful humiliating for the English, but not 
so very much so for the Rhode Island boys. 

The ne.xt clam baking house is Rocky Point, which has been patron- 
ized by the public from all over New England for a great many years, 
and is one of the most ]5opular resorts in the country. Lots of societies 
go here every year for their summer celebrations. These people always 
arrange to git their dinners in the big clam pavilion, while other folks 
that don't belong to any club, very often take along a lunch and go out 
under the trees or down on the rocks beside the water and save 
expenses. 

There is good fishing off this point, and in fact this may be said of the 
entire bay. In the early spring scup come in here and are caught by 
the thousand, and tautog or blackfish, and flatfish and so on, come and 
are caught in abundance, and some are very large. 

By the time we git to Rocky Point we have passed five lighthouses, 
that are kept supplied with kerosene oil by the government, and a mun 
to trim the wicks and light up the lamps at sunset every night in the 
year. Uncle Sam must buy his oil by the barrel to keep so many lights 
agoing. 

All along, up and down the Bay from this point to the city, you 
will see all kinds of boats going one way and another. Steamboats, 
little tugs pulling along a line of coal barges, yachts and catboats — 
called catboats I sujjpose, because they are such good boats for a squall, 
with only one sail which can be let down before the winil can capsize 
them. These small boats, embellished once in a while with an ocean 
steamer, makes a dredful nice marine picture. Here and there you see 
boat loads of fishermen trying to run a big seine around a school of 
menhaden, small fish that they sell for fertilizer purposes or for their oil. 
It is said that catching so many of these little fish that larger and edible 
fish feed upon, is a bad practice for the general fishing business of 
the liay. 

( h'f to the left of Rocky Point is the town of Bristol, where the 
llerreshorts make the fastest yachts in the world, and which have 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 27 

defended successfully the America's cup for several years past. At the 
entrance of the harbor is Hog Island, called by the Indians Chissawan- 
nock Island. Going along further to the Island of Chibachuweset, or in 
English, Prudence Island, you sad along toward Newport past Conani- 
cut Island ; but before this you pass by Wickford, near by where the 
Sachems of the Narragansett Indians are supposed to have had their 
headquarters. Sachems Canonicus and his nephew Miantonomi lived 
here, who was the son of Mascus, brother of Canonicus. Miantonomi 
was practically murdered by Uncas, the sachem of the Mohegans of 
Connecticut, and his son Canonchet was put to death by the Mohegan 
sachem, Oneco, a son of Uncas. These were most singular coincidences 
and a disgrace to the white men of Massachusetts who are said to have 
influenced the first act if not the second one. When poor Miantonomi 
was murdered, that noble queen of the Narragansetts, Wawaloam, was 
left a widow, and not long afterwards her son was killed, the noble 
Canonchet. Gov. Sprague's country residence at Narragansett Pier was 
named in honor of him. Some of the poor Indian women of those days 
must have known the pangs of sorrow just the same as white women do 
to-day, whose boys have gone to some foreign country to fight with the 
army and never come back. I sometimes think there isn't any such 
thing as civilization, — just read about Indian wars and the P'rench revo- 
lution if you think there is. The noble Narragansett tribe has nearly all 
run out, but if everybody had treated them as Roger Williams did, I've no 
doubt they would have become educated and ornaments of society long 
before their ranks had been so depleted. It's one of the sad pages of 
Rhode Island history. Thank goodness the white man can't interfere 
with them in their happy hunting grounds. 

Wickford. 

Wickford is one of the most interesting summer resorts of the 
State, being located directly on the water front which is known as 
Wickford Bay. It has become famous as the headquarters of the 
famous Sachems of the Narragansett Indians, and many people visit the 
place in order to look into the facts pertaining to this once powerful tribe 
of friendly Indians, whose brotherly love for Roger Williams enabled 
him to found one of the most successful cities in the Union. Had they 
been a warlike tribe, he would probably have been murdered as soon as 
he landed within their territory. There is a first-class summer hotel 
here, located near the bathing beach. 

A mile or two further down the Bay is Barbour's Heights, a new 



28 TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 

resort opened this season, with a new up-to-date hotel, which promises 
to be one of the very interesting resorts of the State. 

Wickford is reached from Newport by the Steamer General, of the 
Newport and Wickford R. R. and Steamboat Co., and from Wickford 
Junction by the same line, connecting with the trains from Boston and 
New York on the Consolidated road. I^lectric cars run from Wickford 
to Narragansett Pier, passing by Barbour's Heights, Saunderstown and 
other important points. This west side of Narragansett Bay is destined 
to be fully as important as the east side. 



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Wickford Lii^lil ami lialliing Beach. 



Saunderstown. 



There is a gooti hotel at Saimderstown, located within a short dis- 
tance of the water. At the side of the hotel and in the rear are numer- 
ous summer cottages, forming quite a settlement. Being only si.\ miles 
from Narragansett Pier, and Conanicut Island the only separating 
barrier between it ami New|)ort, it enjoys a favorable location for 
attracting the attention of the traveling jiublic as they cross from the 
island on the ferry boat, to the wharf at Saunderstown, on their way to 
Narragansett I'ier. This point is destined, in my opinion, to be one of 
the great resorts of Narragansett Bay before many years have passed 
away. 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 29 

We sail on down by Gould's Island, the Indian name being 
Aquopimokuk, which was sold to Mr. Gould by Sachem Koskotop. 
Cachanaquant, the chief sachem of the Narragansetts from 1650 to 1665, 
did more selling of islands and tracts of the mainland to the whites, 
round about Narragansett Bay, than any other sachem of the tribe 
before or since. 

When you look about vou, sailing along between these islands of 
the Bay on a beautiful summer day, you can't help feeling as if you are 
sailing over enchanted waters, as you remember that Captain John 
Mason, with about one hundred white men 263 years ago, in the beauti- 
ful month of May, sailed over these waters, and below Rocky Point was 
joined by some two hundred Narragansett warriors under their 
sagamore, on a mission that should rid New England forever of that 
warlike and bloodthirsty tribe of Red Men, the Pequots, whose chief 
sachem, Sassacus, had threatened the extinction of all of the white 
settlers in this part of the New World. You can't helj) imagining them 
as they sailed along in their little pinnaces, and under the shadows of 
night land upon the shores west of Stonington, where the headquarters 
of the Pequot nation had been established within a substantial fort. 
Creeping stealthily up the hillside, they were scaling the walls of the 
fort when the single sentinel shouted, " The English ! The PInglish ! " 
Then the work of slaughter began. It seemed too bad to kill seven 
hundred men, women and children, the latter innocent beings, but such 
was the slaughter, and carrying on the fight to other parts of their 
domain along the Sound, a nation was put out of e.xistence almost in a 
single day. 

And besides this, the thought that on these waters the dusky Red 
Men had sailed in their canoes and fished, and hunted in the primeval 
forests of the mainland, viewing the beautiful landscape, maybe for 
untold ages, is what makes a sail over this body of water so dreadfully 
interesting, and is the reason why folks like to go the same journey over 
and over again, for all the world as if there was an enchantment about 
what they enjoyed all the way to Newport, that they can't git rid of, 
and wouldn't if they could, as they view upon the right hand the land of 
the Narragansetts, and upon the left the home of the Wampanoags, 
whose great sachem, Massasoit, was as friendly to the white men as 
Canonicus and Miantonomi. 

The great windmills that can be seen on the island of Rhode Island, 
with their lean long arms swinging si.xty feet in the air, remind you of 
the land of Don Quixote, and tell of an advance in civiH/.ation beyond 



30 TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 

the Indian life, which were set going by the winds from Mt. Hope and 
Narragansett Bays, and the stronger breezes from old ocean, more than 
a century ago. 

Toleration says that he can't see what's the use of hammering out 
history all of the time. If things have been done they're done and all 
creation can't help it, and so what's the sense of talking so much about 
it. He says, "Why don't you write on something more practical ; some- 
thing that there's some money in, or some chance of profit } " So I says 
to him, "Toleration, there ain't any more sympathy in your nature than 
there is in a lobster, 'though you turn about as red in the face as he does 
when he is biled, when things don't go to suit you. Most likely you 
went to the district school that I've read about, where the committee- 
man told the teachers that he didn't want anything teached in that 
school that wan't practical. ' Of course ' he says, ' the boys will want to 
learn to figger a little, so you can teach them to dew sums in partition, 
distraction, stultification, long and short provisions, but that's all.' Then 
he says, 'we won't have fractions in the school, fact on't is they're too 
puzzlin'. You are always aggittin' the devisor converted the wrong way, 
and the fumigator and the nomination mi.xed up on the wrong side the 
line, and we won't have it teached.' " 

Then I told him I guess he'd been stultified ever since. Perhaps I 
ought not to have said so, but why on earth can't a man talk sense and 
encourage a woman once in a while as well as to stir her good nature all 
up by criticising foreverlastingly everything she does or says .' There's 
some responsibility resting with a man as well as there is with a woman, 
and my opinion is he'll have full as much to answer for as his wife will. 
There was a time when woman was told to keep silent in some places, but 
now she speaks right out in meetin' whether St. Paul gives her the right 
to or not. Oh, I do git so riled up sometimes. Toleration, he's mor'n six 
feet tall and weighs in proportion. How I have wished at times I had 
the strength of a Samson ! I think I could do some good in this world. 
I'd raise,— well, no matter, I'm going to write this book to please my 
own notions, I don't care who talks to the contrary. I suppose if I'd 
written how many clams he could dig and how many fish he could catch 
and the price they'd fetch, he'd think I'd said dreadful interesting things, 
and be almost ready to ask a blessing. 

Newport. 

1 laving passed Gould's Island we are about ready to enter Newport 
Harbor, the most stylish watering |)lace in the world, as the term is. 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 31 

generally accepted. You sail by the war college, sometimes among war- 
ships, sometimes not, into the inner harbor, by Goat Island where the 
torpedo station is, which the Indians called Nantusinunk Island, and as 
you move along and witness the great variety of sailing craft, from a tug 
to the smallest and largest steam and sailing yachts, the finest that ever 
sailed the ocean, you are charmed by the view the harbor presents ; but 
when you turn your face shorewards where the docks are, O, my good- 
ness ! you are disappointed, for the town on the water's edge looks as 
common and plain as a bean supper. But don't go back on the same 
boat because you are shocked at people's taste if they call this one of the 
"charmed spots of the earth." Newport is like a book that you can't 
tell the contents of by the title page. You don't see Newport at all as 
you enter the harbor, — that is, not as Newport is generally known 
abroad. 

Across the harbor on Lime Rock is an interesting lighthouse, where 
Ida Lewis, the bravest of American girls, lives and tends the light, and 
where she has saved so many lives from drowning. Opposite the outer 
harbor is Fort Adams, which don't amount to much only for drill pur- 
poses and making a good show with its granite front, but the dirt forts 
just beyond are somethmg formidable, as well as the new fort opposite 
on Conanicut Island, just at the entrance of the harbor. This latter fort 
is on the site of old Fort Dumplings, and it seems too bad to have 
removed that time-honored old round fort that was one of the most pic- 
turesque sights about here. But that's just the way old things and old 
folks have to be set aside for new-fangled notions. But the new dis- 
appearing guns mounted there they say will be something dreadful in 
war times. Why I'm told they'll shake the whole island every time 
they're fired off. l^ut I believe as much of that as most folks do I 
suppose. 

To see Newport, if your time is limited, take a carriage at the 
steamboat landing and pay two or three dollars to see the town ; or an 
electric car and pay five cents and ride over to Easton's Beach and go in 
swimming in the salt water along with the common folks and million- 
aires, although the latter class I understand have a private beach of 
their own, so that if the common people have any objection to washing 
in the same pool with them, it is all overcome by this arrangement. I'm 
a little particular myself on this question of bathing, but not quite so 
bad as the old lady who objected to go in bathing because she didn't like 
the idea of washing in the same water that everybody else had washed in. 

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long carriages with the seats running crosswise, and take the ten mile 
ocean drive. The driver will take you all around, in and out among the 
residences of the rich, explaining who they belong to and how much 
money they cost, etc. ; some cost millions. By this ride you can see 
Newport in all of its glorious fuss and feathers. 

These great cottages or villas are owned mostly by folks whose 
great wealth has been inherited, and so most of them hax'e been brought 
up with a silver spoon in their mouth, never knowing what real stimulus 
and pleasure there is in life in accumulating a fortune on their own 
account. They're very nice folks and do a lot for charity I'm told. 



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The Casino, Narragaiisclt Tier. 

Money is one of the greatest blessings on earth if the possessor is 
not too much of the pronoun, I. The greatest danger with money is 
where riches come in a day. I have known families of ordinary means, 
with kindly natures, to accumulate a fortune in a year. It proved their 
greatest curse because it stagnated their growth which had begun in the 
right direction. It made them look upon the material in life as superior 
to the spiritual, and that is alvvays a sad thing. A good deal of money 
makes some men and women so proud and airy, and feel so far abo\e 
the common world that they'd never come down again if it wasn't for 
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After you've got back to the boat you'll find yourself talking up the 
splendid grandeur and beauties of the place unless you are very exclusive 
and particular in your notions. \'ou must see the old mill about which 
there is so much mist as to who built it, and many more points of interest. 
There's more mystery connected with this old stone mill than its wuth. 

Newport is reached from New York by way of the Newport and 
W'ickford R. R. and Steamboat Co., connecting at Wickford Junction 
with the main line of the Consolidated Road. From Providence by the 
steamers of the Providence, F"all River and Newport Steamboat Co., 
and from Boston by the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. From Narragansett 
Pier by the steamer Mount Hope, and by the ferries that cross to 
Jamestown and Saunderstown, connecting with the electric cars for 
the Pier. 

Jamestown. 

Directly opposite Newport, across the harbor, connected by ferries, 
is Jamestown, at the southern extremity of Conanicut Island. Here are 
a number of good hotels, more in fact than there are in Newport, and 
numerous grand cottages. The outlook is over the bay and the harbor, 
and it is one of the most restful prospects that can be imagined. 

When Uncle Sam's squadrons visit Newport, they more properly 
speaking visit Jamestown; for the great war vessels always lie anchored 
in the outer harbor, which is almost directly in front of the hotels along 
the water front of Jamestown, thereby enabling the guests of those 
houses to enjoy an unusual privilege, for this marine picture is spread 
before their view for many days at a time. The ever changing scene of 
smaller craft in these waters, lends to this locality an enchantment 
almost beyond description. A ferryboat runs hourly from Newport 
to Jamestown. 

When the boat sails out of Newpoat harbor you pass by one of the 
most dangerous reefs on the coast of New England, out at the front of 
which is Brenton's Reef Light Ship, which keeps boats away from the 
rocks. 

Narragansett Pier. 

A half-hour's sail brings you to the wharf at Narragansett Pier, one 
of the most exclusive resorts in this country, with a bathing beach that 
is wonderfully safe and extending along the coast a long distance. There 
is a great sea wall here extending along the water front from the life 
saving station as far as the little harbor apposite Greene's Inn, along 
which the ocean drive extends. From this drive the most charming view 
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of the ocean is obtained, as well as from the broad piazzas of the hotels. 

Benjamin Hadvvin established the first boarding house at the Pier 
near the site of Hotel Gladstone, and it was known as the Hadwin House. 
Mr. Hadwin probably had no idea that from his boarding house with 
accommodations for about a dozen guests, most of whom came from 
Philadelphia, there would be developed hotel accommodations for many 
thousands of the best folks of the country within a few years. 

From this small beginning came the Taylors, the Brownings, the 
Tuckers, the Mathewsons, the Rodmans, the Caswells, the Armstrongs, 
the Briggses, the Greenes, the Nyes, the Burnses, the Woods, the 
Kenyons, the Babcocks, the Reeds, and so on, all people of the best 
society that have developed some of the best hotels that can be found 
at any of the summer resorts anywhere. 

When there is a storm at sea this is a grand place to view the fury 
of old ocean. 

Greatest place for style to be found anywhere, particularly at the 
gatherings that take place at the Casino, a dreadful popular resort. 

Most everybody here drives fine horses, and their rigs are the best 
that can be bought. They cut a fine figure wherever they go, and look 
real nice. 

The cottages here are about as fine as they are in Newport, and just 
about as many. The hotels open here for the season from the ist to the 
35th of June, when the guests from all over the world begin to come. 

There is another class that come earlier to all summer resorts, 
which is a good thing for the all the year round houses, and they are 
the drummers and advertising agents. The latter represent most of the 
daily papers and periodicals, and they all seem to think that there is as 
much money in the business as there was in Col. Sellers' " Oriental 
Optic Liniment and Salvation for Sore Plyes ! " And that's a fact, for 
the Colonel never sold a bottle to my knowledge because it lacked "one 
ingredient." But these agents have to stay over at the hotels, and there- 
fore this helps to start the season in a small way. 

They have wonderfully good church societies at the Pier, the same 
as they do at most other resorts, with preachers as smart as they have 
in the cities. The P^piscopalian church is the largest, and then comes the 
Bajitist, Presbyterian and Catholic. WHien you are feeling real smart you 
can't go too often to enjoy divine worship at these churches, and you 
nced'nt feel afraid of helping them too much either. It's a great source 
of comfort to them to have the hotel folks come every Sunday. I can't 
say too much tor the cliurchcs. Wh;it would .\nicrica be to-day without 



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them ' The Lord only knows, for we're bad enough now. But lots ot 
churches make great mistakes. Time was when church members were 
weighed by what they did in their daily walks, and not so much by what 
they professed or talked in meeting. The churches used to set good 
e.xamples, but were never so severe as some of them are to-day. Many 
churches are made up mostly of fanatics, well-meaning, but awful dis- 
agreeable folks. 

Whenever a newcomer gits into that kind of a church to enjoy the 
service, some of the members have to tell him that he's on the road to 
destruction, and unless he changes his life and lives like them, he'll go 




Indian Rock, Narragansett I'ier. 

down to perdition jest as sure as can be. And they keep at it until he 
gits tired and disgusted, and then it wouldn't be anything strange if he 
should turn on his accusers and tell them that if he's going to hell, 
which he won't agree to, he don't propose to be tormented before he git.s 
there by a lot of folks that appear to be very willing to act as Satan's 
advance agents, although they do it unwittingly. 

Those kind of folks take all the wheat out of a good sermon, and 
do more harm than they do good. Never tell anybody how bad they are, 
but show them the beautiful things of this life and the life to come, and 
they'll see their weaknesses without suffering the humiliation that comes 



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along with your telling them of it. Be as serious as a March wind, but 
as gentle as an April shower. 

I was brought up a Methodist and belong now to a Methodist 
church in Providence, the land of Roger Williams, the apostle of religious 
liberty. Methodists are not so much of the howling kind as they used 
to be, for we've discovered that the power of a locomotive isn't so much 
in the whistle as in the stomach of the thing. It's well enough to toot 
when there's danger ahead, but there's no sense in making a noise all the 
time. We have a dreadful good Sunday School class, and our teather is 
so generous in his ideas that he can see good in every ism, and every 




Counlry Cluli. Xarrayansclt I'icr. 

thing under the sun, I do believe he'd see something gooil in a jiolecat. 
He lets us talk back and tell him we don't agree with all his notions, but 
in most things we do agree pretty well. Me don't believe in creeds ; 
nuther do I. It's a high board fence that nobody can git over without 
a ladder, and generally before you can git it in place most of the rounds 
are rotted oft. If all the old creed fences would rot down, then 
mankind would be blessed. But they keep repairing those old fences, 
and they've got them patched up so ridiculously now, there ain't 
much of the original structure left in sight ; and when they are all out of 
sight we can afford to say "Amen." 



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There are numerous points of interest here, both on the water front 
and inland, for visitors to see; and fishing parties are very popular, for 
these waters team with fish. Yachting is one of the leading pastimes 
here and at Newport. 

Some of the most noted folks in the world stop at this resort. It 
was a great favorite with Edwin Booth during the closing years of his 
life. Many noted divines are seen here yearly, and some of the titled 
families of Europe consider this one of the great watering places of the 
world. 

There are ever so many ways of getting to this watering place. 
You can come direct from New York by rail over the Pier Railroad, or 
from Newport or Providence by steamers, or from New York by the 
Fall River line to Newport, and then to the Pier by boat. 

Block Island. 

Take the steamer Mount Mope again, and sail along down in front 
of the grand array of hotels, by Wennanatoke Point as the Indians 
called it, but now commonly known at Point Judith, one of the most 
dangerous places for sailing craft along the coast. You are now on 
your way to Manisses, the "Island of Little God," as the Indians were 
wont to call it, but now known as plain Block Island, which is recog- 
nized as one of the coolest spots to be found in summer along the 
Atlantic coast, from Hudson's Bay to the Chesapeake. 

Then the boat points its nose directly towards the island, which is 
now some ten or twelve miles away, the outline of which you can just 
discern. This stretch of water is where great yacht races are held, 
because the wintl is most generally good at all times. You can often 
see dolphins s|)orting in the water here, for all the world as if they were 
playing tag together. Some of the passengers git sick going over, par- 
ticularly if they stay down in the cabin where it is close. When they git 
real sea-sick they always puke uptheir breakfast, and if their su])per hasn't 
digested that generally comes along too. It's a dreadful feeling ; I can't 
understand it ; but the motion of going over those beautiful billows seems 
to take all of the poetry out of your nature along with everything else. 
You lay down on a seat, or on the floor,- anywhere, as long as you can 
lay down, but still you grow sicker and sicker, and begin to develop a 
sort of admiration for the capacity of )()ur stomach, you've thrown uj) so 
much. I've been over on the mail steamer, the Daniclsoii, a small but 
dreadful good sea boat, when I've wished I could have one of them gen- 
uine Christian Scientists along, who think most all things are imagin- 



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ation. Well, after they had been down on all fours for half an hour jest 
a-sho\ving the others how to vomit, and do it easy, I'd like to see the 
one that would call it imagination and try to laugh it away. It would 
be the sickliest smile you can imagine. You can't trifle with old ocean. 
She has her way, and does it so easy you hardly notice it until that 
faint feeling begins to creep over your nervous system. But still the 
sail over is one of the most beautiful you can imagine ; and as a rule the 
sea is smooth, and thus there is no danger of seasickness. 



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New Harbor ,Steartil)c>at Landing, Block Islaml. 

When you git to the island you'll find a hundred persons waiting to 
make you comfortable at their houses, and if you havn't made previous 
arrangements you can take your pick. 

The island is about four miles wide, and nine miles long, and seems 
as you enter the harbor, to be somewhat barren. That isn't so. There 
are not many trees but the land is fertile, and the farmers are prosperous 
accordingly, keeping lots of cows, sheep and so on. When Toleration 
took us all out to ride over the island, nothing to do but he must stop at 
one of the farm houses the first thing, and inquire about the cattle. 
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40 TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 

Toleration says, " I see you have a good many cattle for so small an 
island. How do you ever find water enough for them to drink ? " "Oh," 
says the farmer, " we have plenty of fresh water. Why, there are over 
two hundred little fresh water ponds and lakes on the island, nearly all 
of which are filled with water lilies." "Well," says Toleration, "that's 
lucky, for if nature hadn't made such a provision, you'd be like the man 
on shipboard when they had run out of drinking water: ' Water, water 
everywhere, but not a drop to drink.' If it wasn't for these ponds I 
guess you'd be better off in New York City, so far as your cattle are 
concerned, wouldn't you.'" " Wal," said the farmer, "I can't exactly 
see how that could be." Then Toleration wore a kind of satisfied, wise 
expression, and said, "Of course you've heard about Wall street being 
the greatest place in the world for watering stock .'" Then they both 
laughed like school boys, and the farmer asked Toleration to come in 
and have some cider, after they'd both agreed that where there is so 
much stock there must be slaughter houses, for they'd both heard of 
the lambs that are driven to slaughter every year on Wall street. 
Then they both laughed agin, but Toleration didn't drmk any cider. I 
suppose it was because his family was along, and he wanted to set a 
good example. Although he's a temperate man, I've a notion he's 
dreadful fond of good cider, so if we hadn't been along, things might 
have been different, for I noticed he said, " I guess I won't take any 
to-day," which, being interpreted, probably meant that he would be 
mighty glad to, some other day, when he was alone! 

I do like truthfulness. The old saying, you know, is " The truth 
will bear its own weight anywhere." l^ut the fact is, the truth not only 
has to bear its own weight, but generally the weight of a lie at the same 
time. And it never breaks down under it, nuther. There ain't but one 
thing that's worse than a lie, and that is an insinuation. You can gen- 
erally nail a lie and a liar, but an insinuation gits all over a neighborhood 
before you realize it, and nobody knows from whence it came, and so it 
goes on doing somebody harm, because the public don't know but that 
there may be a shade of truth in the story, and so you see it's a greater 
boon companion of the devil than even a lie ever thought of being. 

There are two good harbors here. The old one being protected by a 
Goxernment breakwater, and the new one is almost entirely land-locked, 
making it a haven of safety for the numerous cruising vessels that sail 
along our coast. 

There are a great many good hotels here, their prices ranging from 
Si. 25 to S.3.50 per day, if you stay a week or longer. 



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Fishing is the principal industry. The inner harbor of the old har- 
bor IS nearly filled with fishing boats, and parties are taken out daily to 
fish for sword fish, blue fish, cod and mackerel. Some of the sword fish 
will weigh over 500 pounds, and it's a wonderful sight to see them 
caught. 

We went out blue fishing last summer, and as there had been a 
storm the day before, the waves and billows were running high, and it 
was cjuite foggy, so that we had to blow a fish horn to keep clear of 




"Clay Head Bluffs, on the edge of the ocean at Block Island, are grand lo look at." 

other boats, and we could hear the fog horn on the island a-blowing its 
note of warning, which made me think of home and friends before I got 
up in the early morning at the hotel, but now it sounded as welcome as 
if a friend of ours was calling from shore for us all to come over and 
have a lunch. I was a-setting in the stern of the boat a-holding on to 
the line, when all of a sudden Toleration said, jest as polite as could be, 
" Please hold my line a moment, and excuse me while I vomit." Well, 
1 felt like laughing, but he looked up with such an expression of humil- 



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ity on his face I kind of pitied him, but thought all the time 'twould do 
him good. I caught the first fish, and 'twant long afterwards that I had 
to vomit over the side of the boat, I got so sick, and then went and laid 
down in the cabin. Toleration seemed to brighten up dreadfully to 
see me suffer so from nausea at the stomach, although he didn't say 
much. I suppose 'twas the same old story, "Misery likes company." 
When we finally sailed into the harbor, we had the best lot of blue fish 
that had been caught that day. The captain of the boat said that we 
could have one fish apiece, but that the rest belonged to the boat. After 
paying a dollar apiece, you feel as though you ought to have all you 
want, but those are the rules and regulations, which you can override if 
you make other arrangements when you go out. 

Watch Hill. 

From Block Island you can sail over to Watch Hill on the steamer 
Block Island, that plies regularly between the Island, Watch Hill and 
New London. You can also reach this place from Westerly by electric 
cars, or from Stonington by a small steamer that connects with the 
New York and Boston trains. 

Watch Hill is a high point of land extending out nearly into the 
mouth of Long Island Sound, and is so situated that it gits the refresh- 
ing breezes from old ocean, and is therefore a very comfortable as well 
as charming place in summer. 

Here is where the Niantic Indians lived, whose sachem was Nini- 
gret, one of the famous warriors of his time. This point is at the e.\treme 
southwestern part of the State of Rhode Island (just barely saving itself 
from getting into Connecticut), near Westerly, where the famous West- 
erly granite is quarried, said to be the best in the world. 

There are a number of first-rate hotels here, and they are well 
patronized throughout the season. Of late years it has become a great 
centre for elegant cottages or villas, many new ones being built this 
year. 

East Greenwich. 

On the western shore of Greenwich Bay, thirteen miles from Provi- 
dence by the trains on the main line of the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R., is 
the village of East Greenwich. It is built on the side of a hill, over- 
looking a good harbor, and is one of the most attractive places in the 

State. 

The Ivast Greenwich Academy, a nourishing educational institution, 

belonging to the Methodist Church, is here located. The buildings are 



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on the hill overlooking the main part of the place, and consist of the 
Academy and five cottages. This year a new dormitory is to be erected. 
The grounds are extensive and beautiful. 
Seaconnet Point. 

Other extremely interesting summer resorts are Tiverton and Sea- 
connet Point. Seaconnet is a rugged pomt of rocks that project out 
into the ocean, at a point about northeast from the bathing beach at 
Newport. Off shore from this point there are said to be the best fish- 
ing grounds in all this seashore region. 




Bristol Harbor. — Seaconnet steamer at the dock. 

The Indian Oueen, " Awashonks," resided a mile or two northeast 
from the Point, who won a favorable reputation among the white people 
of her time. One of the steamers that ply between Seaconnet Point 
and Providence the year round, (one boat rtmning winters and two dur- 
ing the summer), was named in honor of this Indian Oueen, and Capt. 
Pettey, the General Manager of the Seaconnet Steamboat Company, is 
generally the captain of steamer Awashonks. 

This point is very desirable for summer cottages, and a few hotels 
accommodate the general public. Here the famous Rhode Island clam- 
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Plymouth. 

Everybody wants to see Plymouth, the place where the Pilgrim 
Fathers landed, and almost everybody that undertakes to travel any, 
makes it a point to visit the place once at least, and because they find 
the place so full of historical interest and so pleasing a place to stay in, 
many remain the whole season through, for there are several good hotels 
that afford all the comforts that the public may require. 

Not only do strangers want to visit Plymouth Rock, but they are 
as anxious to visit the monument that was erected here in honor of the 
Pilgrims — Pilgrim Hall — where relics of the Mayflower, paintings, etc., 
are deposited. They also enjoy visiting many of the old houses of note, 
and other points of historical interest. 

The harbor of Plymouth, where the Ma)flower lay at anchor, affords 
much pleasure to the hotel guests here who enjoy yachting, because 
there is a kind of fascination to sail upon the waters of the same harbor 
where many of our honored ancestors sailed in their little boats almost 
three centuries ago. Then, the town itself is one of the most beautiful 
to be found in the State of Massachusetts, with its electric car system 
that affords good accommodations for the public that desire to go to the 
beach and other points of interest along the water front. 

As Carlyle has truly said: "Look now at American Sa.xondom; 
and at that little fact of the sailing of the Mayflower joo years ago from 
Delft Haven in Holland. Were we of open sense as the Greeks were, 
we had found a poem here; one of Nature's own poems, such as she 
writes in broad facts over great continents. For it was properly the 
beginning of America; there were straggling settlers in America before, 
some material, as of a body, was there; but the soul of it was first this. 
These ]ioor men, dri\'en out of there own country, not well able to live 
in Holland, determined on settling in the New Workl. Black, untamed 
forests are there, and wild, savage creatures; but not so cruel as the 
Star Chamber hangman. They thought the earth would yield them 
food if they tilled honestly; the everlasting Heaven would stretch there, 
too, overhead; they should be left in peace to prejiare for eternity by 
living well in this world of time ; worshiping in what they thought the 
true — not the idolatrous way. They clubbetl their small means to- 
gether, hired a shi|), the little ship Mayflower, and made ready to sail." 

Martha's Vineyard. 

The summer resorts of this beautiful island are Cottage City, \'ine- 
yard Haven and Edgartown, all of which are reached daily by the steam- 



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ers of the New Bedford, Martha's \'ineyard & Nantucket Steamboat 
Co., from New Bedford and Wood's Hole. 

Cottage City is a great settlement of cottages and summer hotels, 
which have attracted thousands of people yearly ever since it was 
opened as a summer resort. It has become famous on account of its 
camp meetings, and its delightful atmosphere and general good manage- 
ment have won for the ])lace a reputation that few resorts on the New 
England coast have enjoyed. There is a large number of hotels, all 
good ones, some of them accommodatmg 200 people. 




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riymoulh Rock and Harbor. 

Edgartown, a few miles farther south of Cottage City, is a quaint 
and interesting town, somewhat resembling Nantucket. There are 
three good hotels and numerous cottages. The noted actor, Mr. Sol 
Smith Russell, makes this his summer home. His cottage is located on 
a high embankment overlooking the harbor, one of the most beautiful 
sites that I've ever seen. They used to send out whalers from this i.)ort, 
and that at one time was its princi[)al industry. 

If the ]3eople knew more about this island town they would be so 
fascinatetl with its charms, it would require a dozen large hotels to pro- 
vide accommodations for all that would want to stay here for a few 
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I think Edgartovvn is one of the most quiet, restful and interesting 
seaside resorts that I have ever visited. There is so much of historical 
interest here, and the quaintness of the place appeals to one as provid- 
ing a spot upon earth that still wears a tinge of ye olden time, unmixed 
with modern notions, e.xcept as regards cleanliness and orderly highways. 

And I guess there's a numerous number of reasons for the interest 
that is centered here! Why, the place was incorporated as a town two 
hundred and twenty-nine years ago, and that alone tells the story of its 
quaintness. Thomas Mayhew came here in 1647 to educate and con- 
vert the Indians, and he met with success. The house that he lived in 
is still standing. The grandfather of Benjamin Franklin, Peter Folger, 
was one of the early settlers, an amazing good school teacher for those 
times. 

The natives here will point out the places where the Indians lived 
in their wigwams, whose chief sachem was Mattakesett. And the 
Indian burying ground is near by. An occasional descendant of these 
aborigines may be seen here and there around Martha's Vineyard. 

The streets of the town are interestingly crooked, those on the 
water front winding in and out to suit the tortuous harbor line. Great 
shade trees lend a beauty and a kind of comfort that are seldom enjoyed 
so near the edge of the sea. 

The natives are owners of numerous fishing boats that enable them 
to live most of the time on top of the ocean, fishing or sailing about for 
pleasure, with a party of city folks on board for company. I saw a boat 
load of twenty-five hundred mackerel that were caught the day I arrived 
this year, which was the sixth day of June. They looked dreadlully 
large and handsome. The landlord was thoughtful enough to broil some 
for breakfast for our ])arty from this same boat load, and they were 
wonderfully sweet. 

" Edgartovvn has a deep, land-locked harbor of great area, safe for 
sailing in all weathers. This harbor, called by mariners the best and 
safest between Newport and Boston, is visited by hundreds of coasting 
vessels in the course of the year, and during the summer months is a 
favorite rendezvous for steam and sailing yachts." 

" Some of the old whalemen still survive ; anil there is an interest- 
ing old museum, filled with the relics of fishery and its implements, be- 
sides portraits of ninety-eight of the sturdy captains of whalers,- -re- 
minders of the days when Edgartovvn ships, manned by Edgartovvn 
men, sailed every ocean of the globe. Much wealth was accumulated, 
as wealth is rated here; and to-day the neat and tidy ajipearance of the 



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place, comfortable residences, surrounded by old-fashioned gardens, 
good walks, and well kept streets, bespeak the successful pursuit of the 
leviathan of the deep. The people have not lost their individuality by 




Bathing Beach and Innci Harbor, Plymouth. 

the coming of the summer visitor, and the latter are not yet in sufficient 
numbers to crowd the evidence of native life." 

Edo-artovvn has a population of about twelve hundred, a national 




Manomet Point and Ocean \'iew, Plymouth. 

bank, United States custom-house, fine brick, county court-house, jail 
buildings with keeper's residence, four churches, good schools, a news- 
paper, and numerous stores. 



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TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 



Starbuck Neck is a high point of land which affords the best and 
widest view of Edgartown harbor. It is on this point, nearly opposite 
Harbor Light, that an elegant modern hotel has been erected for the 
accommodation of the public that enjoy a resort more select and exclu- 
sive than any to be found in this region. 

There is nothing to mar the quiet of this place except the music of 
the native song birds, and in the early hours of the morning, chanticleer's 
boasting call, the ripple of the waves on the beach, or the rattle of 
tackle as the fishermen in the harbor run up their sails preparatorj- to a 
day's fishing. But they are all restful sounds, for they seem to lull you 
into a sleep more sweet and restful than you have enjoyed before. It's 



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StcauiLtuat Laiulinj^, Collage Cily. 

my opinion there is no place where wasted nervous energy can be re- 
stored so quickly and by such natural means as in Edgartown. 

Vineyard Haven is the first place that the boat stops at. 1 1 ere is a 
good harbor when the wind steers clear of the northeast, but when it is 
in that quarter, you might as well be anchored in mid-ocean, so far as 
the safety of your boat is concerned, provided the wind is a high one. 
There are good accommodations here for summer boarders, and every 
year it is becoming more and more a resort for the summer traveler. 

Nantucket. 

if you want to git away from the noise of tiie outside world, so that 
you can feel that you are comparatively alone, you should go to Nan- 
tucket, and stop at the town bearing the same name, or go over to the 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 49 

south side of the island and stop at what they call Siasconset, which the 
island folks call "'Sconset." There are a great many good hotels here, 
and they have a reputation for making everybody feel at home. The 
town looks quaint to a stranger, and this is what he likes more than any- 
thing else. The air here is very bracing, and the scenery along the 
ocean and over the island is very charming. Lots of our smartest men 
were born in Nantucket, but they had to come over to the mainland to 
let folks know what kind of material they were made of. 

The island is reached by the steamers of the same line that stop at 
Cottage City, one steamer going direct to Nantucket, while another goes 
to the ports of Vineyard Haven, Cottage City and Edgartown. 

Nantucket was formerly one of the great whaling ports of the New 
England coast, and to git one of the old sailors, that used to go whaling 
years ago, to spin some of his yarns about catching whales, is a most 
interesting pastime. 

Watch Hill Cottages and Qolf Links. 

As a resort for beautiful summer \illas, Watch Hill is certainly 
forging ahead of many of the old-time seaside resorts along the Atlantic 
coast. Nearly every hillock is graced by a modern cottage, attractive 
in design, modern in appointments, and some of them large enough for 
a hotel. Many new ones have been built this season, and contracts 
have been awarded for fifteen more for next season. These cottages 
help the half dozen first-class hotels here, because many of the friends of 
the cottagers are desirous of visiting the place, and many will stoji for a 
season at the different public houses. 

"The country a little distance back from Point Judith and the 
shore at Watch Hill seems to have been made especially for golf. In 
its natural features, the variety and beauty of its rugged, boulder-topped 
hillocks, it is exactly suited for the delightful old Scotch game, and 
there are few, if any, golf clubs which ha\e more attractive, or more 
nearly perfect grounds than those of the Miscjuamicut Club. Certainly 
none have a more exquisitely beautiful and interesting course." 

The Misquamicut Golf Club was organized in June, 1S95, ''"'' i" 
corporated February 5, 1896. Some $20,000 have been expended during 
the last few months on the links and the new club building, which is 
one of the finest ever built in this country. The entire course of 
twentv-seven holes now measures about thiee miles. 

Oakland Beach and Buttonwoods. 

Here are two resorts of considerable importance, both of which 
have a good hotel well equipped for summer travellers. The location is 
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TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 51 

on Greenwich Bay, and for a great many years they were patronized by 
the general public because they were public resorts similar to Rocky 
Point and other places of that kind. Of late years they have become 
more exclusive, and summer boarders find here beautiful places in 
which to spend the summer, quiet, restful and invigorating. 

These places are reached by electric cars from Providence, and 
small steamers can land at the wharf. 

Marion, 5ippican Harbor. 

One of the very attractive places on Buzzard's Bay is Sippican 
Harbor, where the town of Marion is situated. The town is beautifully 
laid out on the harbor front, and the headlands of the harbor and general 
surroundings are very attractive. The harbor is sufficiently deep for the 
largest yachts to visit, and is perfectly safe. 

There are two good summer hotels here, that enjoy a patronage of 
the very best kind. The place is reached by the N. Y , N. H. & H. R. R. 
Teams from the hotels meet the trains during the summer. 

Cape Cod. 

There are a numerous number of good resorts in various uarts of 
the Cape, and hundreds ot ])eople go there every year for their summer 
\'acation. Among the most interesting are Falmouth Heights, Onset, 
llyannis, Provincetown and .Monument Beach. 

Other New England Resorts. 

Of course besides the resorts that I have already described, there 
are a great many more that I haven't the time to give full details about. 
There is Nantasket Beach, off Boston, that is a dreadfully interesting 
place, and thousands of people from all over the country go down there 
to breathe salt air and eat fish dinners, along with their Boston cousins. 

Boston folks are not so stuck up over their enlightenment as some 
people give them credit for. They are simple in their habits, pork and 
beans being their staple food, and in their general make up they are 
very much like other folks. I've heard it said that a Boston man never 
notices anything of an ordinary nature; it must be something extraor- 
dinary to attract his attention. But t'other day I saw a merchant rush 
out of the front door of his store on Tremont street to see a band of 
music pass by jest as interested as a school boy, I guess human nature 
is about the same the world over, no matter whether it's in Boston or 
down on the farm. I never knew anybody to git so much education as 
to forgit their childhood days, and that kind of a memory will keep 
anybody sensible all through their life. 

All along the coast above Boston there are a numerous number of 
summer seaside resorts, and down m Maine is York Beach, Old Orchard 
and a lot more that are well provided with hundreds of good hotels. 




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NEW HAMPSHIRE, 

The principal features ot interest in this Switzerland ot Anier- ' 
ica are, first, the White Mountains, strictlv speaking, the Presi- 
dential and Franconia ranges, together with the numerous canyons, 
cataracts and cascades, and the tour vallevs that lie at their base : 
the Androscoggin, the Saco, the Pemigewasset and the Connecti- 
cut vallevs, all fertile and beautiful. There are other groups and 
ranges of mountains that, to some, are equallv interesting. The 
ncKt in importance are the lakes, Winnipesaukee, ot course, being 
the largest, and all having their peculiar charms tor visitors to this 
region. The seashore resorts come next. 

There are several trains dailv from Boston over the Boston 
and Maine Railroad that take vou into the heart ot the mountains, 
passing on either side ot Lake Winnipesaukee, giving you a 
choice of routes. 

The five hours that are required to reach vour destination is 
what makes vou think the Sierras and the Rockv Mountains ot 
the far West are not to be compared with our New England hills, 
because the great distance destrovs in a large measure their grand- 
eur and beautiful surroundings. 

After leaving Boston, about the first place that attracts your 
attention is Wolfboro, where vou see the Ossipee and Belknap 
Mountains, if vou travel on the eastern route, and from there on 
vou are kept bobbing from one side of the car to the other in or- 
der to see the numerous number ot mountains that appear to \-our 
vision as vou ride along. 

One ot the most striking mountains that vt)u next see upon 
vour left is Chocorua, whose rockv pinnacle stands out sharp 
against the horizon with as set and rigid an expression as the In- 
dian chief's, in whose honor it is named; further along, Mt. Kear- 
sarge looms up so stateU' and large \<)u imagine this must be 
about the highest point hereabout, but verv soon Mt. Washington 
and other points of the Presidential Range appear to your view, 
and the climax of \-our e\|iectations is met, although they are 
many miles awav. 



54 TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 

North Conway. 

The first stopping place ot importance is North Conwav, 
which is a beautitul village with numerous hotels, situated 
about thirty feet above the Saco ri\-er, which winds along 
through broad meadows. This level plain upon which the hotels 
are built is surrounded by mountains and therefore ari^ords a view 
that ordinary mortals find hard work to do tull justice to in Knglish 
or any other language, lo the left, Moat NIountain stands as a 
sentinel, to the east is Rattlesnake Ridge; to the right Mt. Kear- 
sarge, and beyond, Mt. Washington and other points ot interest. 
This is one ot the very popular resorts of New Hampshire and 
where the coaching parades used to take place. 

Captain Joshua Heath was probably the earliest inn-keeper 
in the town ot Conway, dating back as tar as 1790. Austin 
George was licensed to keep a public house m 1792. Lieut. 
Stephen Webster was "approbated" to keep a tavern in 179.1. 
Capt. Klisha Densmore was licensed to keepi a public house in 
1795, and Capt. John Chase was " approbated " to keep a house of 
entertainment the same year. Andrew McMillan, Ksq., was also 
" approbated " to keep a house ot public entertainment in 1795, 
and he erected the McMillan House, which was destroyed by fire 
early in the fall of last year ( 1899), it having served the public tor 
104 years. In 1800 Henry Sherburn, Jr., had the approbation 
ot the selectmen to keep public house. 

These inns served the genei-al public, mostly those traveling 
to and from Portland and \'ermont anil northern New Hampshire, 
summer boarders not being thought of until about 18:15. 

Mr. Samuel W. Thompson opened the Kearsarge, the first 
liotel in North Conwa\' for the accommodation ot summer tourists, 
which was along about 1 8jo. In 1 S40 he established the stage 
line running through the Notch trom North Conwa\' to the I'aln- 
an, as well as a line to the (ilen, which he continued until the 
Portland and Ogdensburgh Railroad was opened. Ihese stage 
liiu's aided ver\' materialK in bringing to North Conway the great 
luiniber ot summer travelers that ha\'e made the ]ilace so tamous. 
In another wa\ Mr. Thompson helped to make the town popular 
which was b\' imlucing some fitteen artists to stoji at his hotel at 
a moderate cost, under the agreement that tlie\ shoukl sketch 
scenes in and around North Conwa\ and exhibit their pro- 
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to rhis wondertul mountain resjioii — hence the deveU)nnienr 
ot summer resorts at various points in this locality. This was a 
most original and successtu! plan for advertising the town, and 
which made it the pioneer summer resort among the New Hamp- 
shire mountains. Mrs. L. J. Ricker, daughter of Mr. Thomp- 
son, is now carrying on the hotel business in the homestead of 
S. W. Thompson, nearly opposite the original Kearsarge House. 
It Mr. Thompson alwa\s set as good a table as his daughter does, 
he must have been an amazing good landlord. 




Mt. \\"ashin^ton, near North Conway and lacUson. 

Mr. J. I.. Kandall and Daniel I'.astman were among tiie carl\ 
hotel keepers. Mr. Randall opened the I'iandall House about 
1864, t^he same that is now run by his son, and he was one ot the 
owners of the stage lines around Lake Winnipesaukee man\ \ears 
earlier. 

That Race Horse. 

Last year we lured a team tor a dri\'e i^ound about North Con- 
wax. The horse was a ba\ one ami looked as docile as a kitten. 



56 TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 

We went over to Kearsarge \'illage and was a-praising the horse 
all the wav over because he was so regular and such a good roader. 
He jest kept an even gait, never changing it, and wasn't atraid of 
anvthing. Toleration he was a drivin' and he seemed to set a 
good deal hv him, tor he said, " Mother, what a mate he'd make 
tor our Bill," which was one of our horses, "he's so even gaited 
and jest like hini tor steadiness." Then he said, " Guess I'll 
have to make the man an offer." He was a dreadful handsome 
horse and it we could buy him I thought it would be a good thing. 
We rode along back trom Kearsarge \'illage and struck in 
onto the main street in North Conwav some distance south of the 
Kearsarge House, and was riiiing along easv like, enjoxing the 
beauties ot the street with its attractixe hotels and cottages, and 
the views ot the surrounding mountains. There were lots ot 
hotel guests on the street, coming and going, and there was noth- 
ing but lite and animation evervwhere. What a beautiful and 
tranquil afternoon it was in August. When we got prettx nearlv 
opposite the Kearsarge House our horse began to quicken his 
pace and when he got even with the post-office, in spite of all that 
Toleration could do, he was going at a break-neck pace. He 
went and went and kept agoing, taster and faster, and 1 shouted 
to tather, " What's got into the beast? " He mumbled some- 
thing about " the dex'il, he guessed ! " and kept agoing. I thouyht 
a bee or a hornet must have stung him, for 1 never rid so fast in 
all my lite. Mv shawl stood out behind as straight as Toleration's 
coat tails diti, and Hattie and Madalene were hanging on to their 
father and me as it they were frightened nigh aiiout to death. 
Toleration had given up stopping the critter and jest sot down to 
hollering to e\'erybodv to " keep out of the wav." Thev gave us 
the road, and it we didn't go a half a mile in a minute then a 
horse ne\'er did before. 

When we got to the railroad crossing the most astonishing 
part ot the whole affair was he settled down into his old gait anci 
was as ilocile as e\'er. 'lOleration got out and looked the harness 
all over and exannnetl tlu' horse's legs, but he couldn't see but 
what ever\ tliintr was all right and said, " Wal, if that don't beat 
theOlii i larr\ then I ne\-er saw anvthing that tiid." 1 toKl him 
he'd better take hiin hack and git another, tor he miLi;lu ha\'e 
another ht and break our necks, but lie " guesseii he wouldn't," 
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you never saw a horse go better all the way. We came into town 
agin to the south, and when we got to the post-office away he 
went into another one of them fits and trotted faster'n ever, and 
stopped agin when he got to the railroad. Then I got out and 
made the girls git out, too. " Now," savs 1, "you can drive that 
horse to the harn and we'll walk ! 1 ain't agoin' to risk our lives 
with him an\' longer!" 

Just then a gentleman came along and told us that this 
straight line of road Irom the post-office was used as a race track 




** He went down the Main street <tf North Coiiwa)' like all possess! " 

during the winter and spring months, and this horse had raced' 
with other horses so much over the same ground it had become 
second nature tor him to "go fast " when he struck this stretch ot 
road. 

That explained it. Sure enough he diil "go tast," and no 
mistake. 1 shall never torgit it as long as I live. Toleration was 
wondertullv well pleased about it when he found out the reason 
tor such a tuss, and he made us all git into the wagon agin. He 
was hound to try his speed over the same course once more tor 



58 TWENTIKTH CENTURY VACATION. 

enjoyment, which he did, notwithstanding we all remonstrated 
with him tor making such a show in public. We all were satisfied 
that the horse was a good and kind one, but the bo\s a-running 
him on the race track were to blame tor the whole uproar. 

Intervale. 

About a mile turther along is Inter\'ale, where a ciozen or 
more good hotels make the traveling public comfortable. Krom 
this point, as vou look toward Mt. Washington about northwest, 
\'our eves take in a view across the broad inter\'ale (extending ap- 
parentlv several miles), that thev are not commonU' accustomed 
to see. This intervale is what gives the name to the place, and 
no better could be chosen. It is dotted here and there with 
clumps ot trees so artistically arranged b\' the hand ot nature as to 
make a picture, embellished with herds ot grazing cattle, that 
makes vou teel, perhaps tor the first time in \our lite, that there 
is something akin to poetrv in vour nature. Near h\ are great 
pine groves, among which \'ou can take delighttul walks or drives, 
and the air here is laden with the sweet, health-giving pertume that 
these great pine trees give to the gentle breezes that blow through 
them and then into the windows of vour hotel. 

Intervale is situated on the Maine Central Railroad, and is the 
last station of the Boston and Maine, h.cho Lake and White 
Morse Ledt^e are points ot interest here, along with a numerous 
number ot other kinds near b\', including the golt links. 

Kearsarge Village. 

There are two ot the besr kiiul ot hotels here, and these eii'iov 
an extensive patronage. 1 he jilace is situated nearly at the base 
ot Kearsarge Mountain, hence its name. Its location being about 
a mile from Intervale ami the same distance trom North Con\\a\, 
gi\'es it relari\-cl\ the same location as these two resorts. 

Jackson. 

To git to this place \()u must take carriages trom North Con- 
wa\ or Inter\'ale, or take the train anil (jo to Cilen Station, the 
latter ot which is the common wa\, where carriages trom all ot the 
hotels ot Jackson meet the trains. Win this place is called Jackson 
is more than 1 know, unless it was named in honor ot OKI 1 lickor\. 
Hut no matter, it's a beautiful |ilace, hemmed m In mountains, 
and the rule m mountain wairons or Concoid coaches trom the 



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station, much oi the way along the banks of the Glen Ellis River, 
a distance ot three miles, is trulv enchanting, there is such a variet\- 
ot scenery to be enjoyed all the way. 

The first hotels tor summer tourists were opened in Jackson 

about i860, by Mr. James M. Meserve, his uncle, Capt. Joshua 

Trickey and Joseph B. Trickey. Mr. Meserve's two sons are 

now landlords of hotels here, and two sons of the Trickey family 

are co-partners in the same line of business. 




Kuiiaway Brnok Kails, Kearsargt- Milage, X. U. 

Mr. Meserye, senior, \ears ago used to carr\- on the saw mill 
business here, and a part ot his work was to turn out base ball 
bats tor a sporting goods house ot Boston. I'Or a time this was 
quite a large business tor the town. 

Kver\' time I hear saw mill mentioned 1 can't help rhinkmLf 
ot what 1 used to hear m\ old grandfather sa\' about slabbing 
logs. He said that some men needed about as much slabbing 
to git them straightened out so the\'d be wuth somcthmg as a 



6o TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 

crooked log did. And then he'd go on to sav that after 'twas 
straightened out all right there wasn't much left for timber. 1 
always thought there was lots ot truth in't. 

As you enter the cluster ot hotels vou see Iron Mountain to 
the lett, Thorn Mountain to the right, where the famous Thorn 
Mountain Park is situated, which was designed tor private resi- 
dences. Beyond the valley is Kagle Mountain and other promi- 
nent peaks, while beyond to the left Mt. Washington and a part 
ot the Presidential range are piainlv in view, apparently but a tew 
miles distant. 

Two rivers — the Glen Kllis and the Wild Cat — make a junc- 
tion here, and it is along these river banks that man\' a fisherman 
has discovered the title page to a good fish story. They abound 
in trout, as do nearly all of the streams in this region. Along the 
banks ot these streams and on the mountain sides are the most 
delightful walks and drives, and everybody enjoys them. 

There are now a number of large and elegant hotels here, with 
a capacity tor caring tor several thousand guests, and one ot the 
hotels, the Iron Mountain House, opens winters tor snow-shoe 
parties, which has become ijuite a popular pastime. 

There is a nice mineral spring here, that Professor F.dmund 
\i. Angell says "for purifying the blood and cleansing the system, 
a better water could hardly be found." And he ought to know, 
tor he is Chemist to the State Board ot Health. It is called the 
Jackson Mineral Spring. Tliere are tjood jjolf links here. 

The Olen. 

loo bad the old (ilen House burned down, and when the 
new (ilen House was destro\ cd In tii-e, it was a still greater loss 
to rile east sitie, tor it was one ot the most attracri\e hotels in its 
architectural consti'uction that I lia\'e e\ er seen, and it was alwa\s 
well manaired. 

\\ hat a grand riile ot (itteeii miles on top ot a stage coach 
from (ilen Station to the Glen House 1 — mountains e\er\ w here all 
along the road, rushing streams, waterfalls, cascades, through 
green meadows and forests of spruce and pine! The site ot the 
Cilen House is where the niduntain carriage road begins that ex- 
tends to the summit of Mi. W'ashinuton. 



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Where I First Met Mr. Joshua Billings. 

I first met Josh Billings at the old Glen House, and I tound 
him a wonderful character. He was a great fisherman; used to 
go up and down the Peabodv River and catch lots ot trout, hut 
he never bragged about it. When he used to cross the mountain 
road where the bridge and the toll-house was located, he would 
stick his head in at the door and sav, " Here's where you catch 
'urn!" And sure enough thev did, for foot passengers had to 




Moat Mi'Unlaiii and the Sarti ]\i\ci. 

pav a quarter to git bv that little house, and eighty cents apiece 
must be paid for every horse that went up the mountain road. 

1 remember one cool morning, a lot ot Bostonians had gatheretl 
around the wood fire in the lobby of the hotel, and all of a sudden 
Mr. Hillings said, " Cientlemen, 1 can propound a common word 
to\(ui that you can't tell Webster's definition ot, with all \oui- 
Boston knowledge! " The Boston gentlemen liidn't believe that, 
and so Mr. Billings sa\s, " Well, I'll give you the word, and you'll 
see with all \our boasted lioston knowledge you can't define it. 



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The word is ' Humanitarian.' Now, give the definition, and git 
vour gin I " Some said one thing and some another, but none ot' 
them were right, although thev declared the\' were. " Not one oi 
\ ou are right," said Mr. Billings. "The word means a heing that 
don't believe in the Di\init\ ot Jesus Christ." Then he laughed 
as it he'd satisfied himselt in downing the men trom Boston, and 
the\' walked otl" as cresttallen as vou can imagine. He wasn't verv 
well tor a number ot \ears, and he used to go to the Glen where 
he could be pertectK quiet and pick up in health. He tound a 
spring near the ri\-er bank that he named alter himselt, and visitors 
alwavs wanted to drink out t)t that spring. It's a pit\' some one 
doesn't build another hotel on this beautiful site. 

The White Mountain Carriage Road. 

The carriage road that extends eight miles to the summit ot' 
Mt. Washington trom the site ot the Cilen House, is one ot the 
most wondertul engineering undertakings ot its kind in America, 
from the fact that the grade is eas\ trom start to the finish. It 
winds in and out ot great patches ot torest, first along what appears 
like a countrv road, and then again along the edge ot some preci- 
pice. After vou pass the Half-Wav House, the scenery is grandlv 
sublime. You look over into a deep ravine at the toot ot Mt. 
Jeti^^erson, and then a sharp turn ot the road brings \ou to the 
summit ot a spur ot the mountain, where a broad view ot the 
mountainous countrv round about is atibrded, Tuckerman's Ra\iiie 
being in the foreground, ^'ou teel as though \ou would like to 
have the driver rein up his six horses here tor an hour, so 
fascinating is the scenerv. I'.verv hundred tcct gives a new scene, 
and \()u teel when \'ou reach the Summit House that \ou have 
taken the most remarkable carriage ride that there is to be enjoN eii 
amwhere in all the world. 

^'ou naturalK' will want to stoit o\er night at the Summit 
House, so as to obtain a view trom the highest point in New 
I'.ngland, and it the morning be tair, \ cm will not be disappointed as 
vou look awav towartls Portland, and then over into X'crmonr, 
Maine and Canada, where, as sou might well sa\ , mvriads of 
mountain peaks meet vour vision, and these, together with the 
foot-hills and valle\s, with villages, hotels and x'ilias dotting the 
landscape here and there, torm a picture that \()u probabU have 
ne\'er seen (juite eijualled betore in an\ country. 



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Wlieii I went up thf last time I enjoved it just as well as I 
did the first time. You never git tired of" New Hampshire scenery. 

Besides the hotel there are several other buildings on the sum- 
mit. The old signal station, the stage house, engine house, and 
the old Tip Top house, which is now a printing office, where a 
daily paper is issued during the summer, called " Burt's Among 
the Clouds." It's wondert'ullv interesting, giving the names ot 
all the mountain visitors, and most of the names of guests ot 
the hotels around the White Mountains. 

I was amused one da\ when a Chicago gentleman who wanted 




l.uodrich l-alls, Jack,-un, N. II. 

a paper told the hov he " thought ten cents was a pretty high 
price for a dailv." " Well," savs the hov, " It ain't so high when 
\ ()u come to think of it. l''aper is \er\ high up here on the 
mountain." " Don't see whv it should he an\ higher here than 
anywhere else, save a little extra freight hill," said the gentleman. 
" ( ), hut vou don't understand," said the hoy, "it's over six 
thousand feet above the level of the seal 'ihat makes it figure 
jirettN high, vou seel" The Chicago man put t)n a sickly smile 
ami bought t\\ent\' copies. 



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You CTo down to Fabvans and Bethlehem on the west side ot 
the mountain bv the inclined railway, which is another one ot the 
wonders in engineering undertakings. You naturally think it 
looks pokerish, but thev have never had an accident on this road 
since its construction, twenty odd years ago. 

Crawford Notch. 

At Glen Station \ou begin one ot the most interesting railroad 
rides that \ou about ever enio\ed, I venture to say, and one that 





lackson Scenery. 

you never will torgit. When \ ou ha\e bought your ticket at the 
retail price you feel as itxou'd like to tear oti a corner to retain 
as a relic of the trip, particularK when you find you could have 
gone through for aliout half the money if vou had bought a thou- 
sand mile hook. Well, no matter about that, the road bed costs 
here, through this great rift in the mountains, more than fi\e 
times as much as it docs in other points along the route, and ot 
course you are expected to bear \ our |iroportion ot the exju-nse, 
which is onlv right. 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 



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When vou get to Bartlett, a tvpical mountain town with one 
excellent hotel, vou begin to git a glimpse ot the wonders before 
vou. You begin to climb and climb, and keep on climbing, some 
of the time on the banks of the headwaters of the Saco river, crossing 
occasionallv the old carriage road that extends through the Notch, 
vou keep a-going higher and higher until when you git up where 
the conductor says vou can't go anv higher unless you climb Mt. 
Washington, vou feel for all the world as it vou had been dragged 
out of the bowels of the earth up on to its surface, where you can 
breathe easv once more. 




Ciateway of Crawford Xoleli, White Mountains. 

There is some of the grandest scenerv here that there is in anv 
part ot the world, so old travellers sav, and as \ou ride along \ ou 
can enjov it all. When vou come to where the old Willev House 
used to stand, vou can't help thinking ot the sad storv that a land 
slide occasioned on the 28th dav of August, 1826. A whole fani- 
il\ were buried alive, together with their hired help. Samuel 
Willex', Jr., and his wite, Pollv Lovejov Willev, were livintj here 
with their five beautiful children and two farm hands. When the 
land slide came, it the\' had onl\- staid in the house the\' would 



66 TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 

have been saved, tor a lew months betore a huge bowlder came 
down the mountain side and stopped immediateh' in the rear ot 
the kitchen door. It was this great rock that saved the house. 
But the\' went out because the^• thought it best to, and met their 
death. 

Wh\' is it folks will persist in li\'ing in jest such outlandish 
places ? Whv couldn't the\ have gone down the vallev a little fur- 
ther where it is broader, so the\' could have gone to bed at night 
with teelings of satetv r The town officials ought to mtertere in such 
cases and make them move out in to more safe places. It women 
had had their rights sech nonsense would long ago have been 
stopped, I dare sav. I sometimes think man cares more lor a 
horse than he does for a human being. I ne\er can think ot this 
terrible calamitv without gitting all wrought up about it jest to 
think that somebodv didn't have sense enough to stop the affair 
before it begun. But it can't be helped now-. All we can do is to 
drop a tear and pass on, but it sort of takes away some of the 
pleasures of the rest of the journev tor that day, unless one is very 
fri\'ilous in nature. 

When \ou have reached the other side of the Notch, and 
passed through the gatewav, \ou come out In a little lake at 
Crawford station, and then pass on to Fab\ ans, Bethlehem, Jeffer- 
son, Whitefield and Littleton, all charming summer resorts. 



LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE REGION. 

Laconia. 

The region roumi about Lake \\ innipesaukee is as charming 
to the white man of to-dav as it was to the aboriginees, who gave 
it the name of the "Smile of the Great Spirit." Betore you reach 
the Weirs, which is the station on the railroad nearest the lake, 
you pass through Laconia, which is situated on Lake Winnesquam, 
a body ot water nine miles long In about two wide, and a wonder- 
ful boti\' of water for bass fishing. It is connected with the larger 
lake b\ a swift running river about three miles long. I'his body 
of water, togethci- w ith the Belknap range of mountains that lie 
towards the east from the town, bordering Lake W innipesaukee 
on the west, makes this locality a most desirable summer resort, 
and hundreds of folks fi'om all pai-fs ot the countrx stop here at 



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some of the manv hotels that enjov desirable sites tor viewing the 
lake and the mountain ranges. I've caught some wonderfully 
larye bass here in Lake Winnesquam, but like everybody else that 
understands the art, I lost the ones that were the biggest. 

The best place to fish is where the river empties into the lake. 
'Wju are most alwavs sure ot catching a good string ot bass here, 
prox'ided the\' happen to be running when vou are there. 1 knew 
a Boston man or two who would generallv catch a numerous num- 




Lakt* Wiiinipcsaukee at the Weirs. 

ber of them most an\- time that the\ wanted to. Some will weigh 
tour and five pounds. 

The scener\' round this lake is tull as interesting as the sport ot 
fishing, tor the tormer \ ou are alwavs sure ot averaging up about 
the same everv da\', while the latter varies, along with the weather. 

The Weirs. 

I'he Weirs is where the steamboats ot the big lake make then- 
landings, and connect with the railroad trains. Some tolks think 



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this is about the most interesting place in all ot New Kngland, 
because there are such refreshing \'ie\\s ot the lake, together with 
grander views ot" the mountains, which can he seen in all direc- 
tions. And what a place tor boating and fishing 1 'Taint any 
wonder thev think it enchanting. An electric railroad connects 
this place with Laconia, which runs along the water tront all ot 
the wav, making one of the most interesting car rides that 1 ever 
enjoyed, and which gave a variety to carriage and steamboat rid- 
ing, of which I had had my share tor one season. 




Asquam Lake, liolderness, N. H. 

There are a number of good hotels here right near the steamboat 
landing, and these afford lots of pleasure for the young folks that always 
like to see something going on at a summer resort. You can keep as 
quiet as you please or you can be in the whirl of a numerous number of 
entertainments of different kinds nearly all summer long. 

Dr. Greene is the owner of the largest hotel here— the man that got 
up that great medicine, along with his brother, that they call Xervura. 
Everybody ought to know him. Thousands and thousands of bottles 
been sold all over the world, I suppose. How I did like to bear the 
Doctor lecture and shmv tiiem great jiictures of foreign countries, and 



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recite the poem of "The mill will never grind with the water that has 
passed." He was one of the most collected men I ever met. Don't 
believe you could make him nervous if you hollered right in his ear. 
He's got one of the handsomest hotels in New Hampshire, facing the 
water front, from the piazzas of which you can see the steamboats com- 
ing and going, and all of the beautiful sights that this place is noted for. 
If you've got any poetry in your nature it's bound to take root and 
grow here. 

The other points bordering on Lake Winnipesaukee are Centre 
Harbor, Wolfboro, Alton Bay, Lake Shore Park, and some of the islands 




Kiiiiball's Casllf, overlooking Lake \\ uinipesaukee. 

have fine cottages and villas that make them important. The steam- 
boats stop at most all of these places. 

liolderness and Ashland. 

The town of Holderness is situated on Asquam Lake, about four 
miles from the railroad station at Ashland, and is one of the most re- 
markable in many respects of all of the New Hampshire summer resorts. 
Here are a chain of lakes, extending for miles between the hills and 
mountains, forming a picture quite different from any other lake scenery 
in this section. There are a number of good hotels, two of them very 
large, located in different parts of the town, some in the valleys, others 



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on the summit of high hills, while theie are a few located on the gentle 
slopes near the water's edge, thus enabling anyone to select just the 
point that they want. The drive from the railroad station is full of 
interest, so much so that you wish there were more miles to be covered 
before reaching your hotel. This town is so near Lake Winnipesaukee, 
guests stopping here are afforded the greatest variety of carriage rides 
that can possibly be desired. 




" 1 ilil .Miin of Ihe .Moimlain."' 

North Woodstock and l-ranconia Notch. 

At North Woodstock, which is mic nl the leading resorts of the 
White Hills, is where you take the coach for l'"ranconia Notch. \'<ui 
can git in there by rail, but you've got to go to Bethlehem Junction to 
take the train, and that is on the other side of the Franconia Range of 
mountains. 

This place has been made famous by the "('Id Man o{ the Moun- 
tain," which has been on guard way u|) there on the inmmtaiii long be- 
fore stage coaciics were thought of. Then, that gieat lilt iii the surface 



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of the earth which is called the "Flume," is another wonder of nature 
that interested me as much as anything, and which everybody talks 
about more or less. 

Vou are apparently so close to the base of the mountains as you 
drive along with your si.\-horse team, you are impressed that unless the 
earth holds pretty steady they're liable to tip over on to somebody. 




The I'lunie, l-"ianconia Notch. 

There are two beautiful lakes here, and many more points of in- 
terest. The public is well cared for here by two large hotels, and on 
account of such good accommodations thousands of jjeople visit this 
[ilace yearly. 

Bethlehem. 

Bethlehem is the most considerable place for summer hotels in Xew 
Hampshire. It is laid out with one long street, with two or three run- 



72 TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 

ning crosswise, at the base of Mt. Agassiz, and enjoys an elevation of 
over fourteen hundred feet. The Ammonoosuc \'alley lays to the left 
as you face Mt. Washington, which is plainly in view, together with 
other points of the Presidential Range, as well as points of the Fran- 
conia Mountains. The scenery here is grand almost beyond description. 
On both sides of the main street numerous hotels are located, and 
some are situated on the side streets. They are all good hotels, and 
guests come from all parts of this country. 




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'"h:iM 







Main Strcft, Liitleton, N. 11. 

Why this place was called Bethlehem, I have never found out, al- 
though I suppose there's a reason for it ; but it's a good name that has 
always been sustained by the citizens of the town in a manner that is 
worthy of them. 

Maplewood is a mile further along, and is really a part of the same 
town, where there are two more first-class hotels located, one of them 
the largest on this side of the mountams. 

IJttleton 

Littleton is one of the most thrifty towns in the State, as well as 
one of the most beautiful. It is situated only five miles from Bethlehem, 
and has become quite famous as a summer resort. The summer hotels 
are located high up on the hill aho\-e the main street, or in the outskirts 



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of the town. A few manufactories here places the town in an indepen- 
dent position as to the support it receives from summer tourists, although 
the citizens of the place do all that they can to foster the summer hotel 
business. Besides the summer hotels here there are two or three good 
commercial houses, where drummers try to make their headquarters 
when they are traveling in this section of the State. 

Franconia and Sugar Hill. 

Sugar Hill and Franconia enjoy practically the same locality, al- 
though Sugar Hill is located on higher ground. To reach these places 
you must stop off at Sugar Hill station or at Littleton, and take car- 




Bflknap Kangc, Laconia. 

riages to the different hotels, which are very large, and there are a num- 
ber of them. 

The views enjoyed from these hostelries are said to be the most 
far-reaching of an_\- enjoyed among the mountains, unless it be those that 
are seen from the summit of Mt. Washington. 

Whitefield. 

Whitefield is another one of the thriving; \-illaires anion"; the White 
Hills, which enjoys quite a lot of business besides that which the sum- 
mer hotel brings to the place. It is located on the Johns River, at the 
junction of the Hoston & Maine, Maine Central and Whitefield & Jeffer- 
son Railroads It is a wonderfully attractive town, with some 3,000 
population. The summer hotels here enjoy the very best patronage year 
after year. 



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Jefferson. 

Jefferson, one of the largest resorts for the summer tourist, is situ- 
ated on the west side of the Presidential range, Jefferson Highlands be- 
ing located almost at the base of the mountains. There are a great 
number of hotels here, those at Jefferson proper being nearly all under 
one management, I am told. You must take carriages for the latter 
point, but there is a railway station quite near the Highlands. 

There is a most extensive view of the broad valley, and the moun- 
tains can be seen at almost every point of the compass. 

There are a numerous number of other summer resorts of interest, 




Lake \\'inncM]uain, Laconia. 

but these that 1 ha\c mentioned arc in my opinion the leaders so tar as 
New Hani])shire is concerned among the lake and mountain regions. 



Rye FJeach and Isle of Shoals. 

Among the seashore resorts of New Hampshire, Rye lieach and 
the Isle of Shoals are of course the most fashionable, and they both 
enjoy as interesting locations on the Atlantic as any of our most popular 
summer resorts in other States. At Rye Beach I found a number of 
good hotels, large and small, and at the Isle of shoals I found some of 
the largest and most elegant houses that 1 ha\-e ever seen anywhere. 
These are both famous resorts, and thousands of pco])le go there 
yearly. 



WOMEN'S RIGHTS. 



T;ilkin<;' aliiiut women's rights the other d;iy. Toleratimi says, says 
he, "I don't think I care imrticularly al)Out how many rigiits tlie 
women enjoy, hut I've thought how humiliating it would lie to intro- 
duce my wife to some friend of mine as the 'Town Sargent,' provided 
you got elected, or to lie ohliged to witness your efforts in various 
other ways that you might call your rights — for instance, driving a six- 
horse team, holding the plow, presiding at a town meeting, or leading a 
brass band. Wal, 'Mandv, I guess you'd cut a iigure as a drum major I 
But then, if you want all of the rights and privileges that the men 
have, of course these are among the rest of them." 

"Toleration," says I, "you know better than to talk tliat way. 
You know that women don't want to do nonsensical things. Ynu know 
1 don't want to be Town Sargent or a drum major, nor anything else 
that ain't becoming for women to do, and you are only talking to make 
fun of the cause, that's all. But the cause is right and you know it, 
and it's got to stand and be carried foi ward until women has the right 
to protect lier sous and daughteis fiom the contaminating influences of 
this world. And that's practically all tliat she wants. If the mothers 
of America could have their way there wouldn't lie a corner groggery 
frmii I'xiston to San Francisco, and politics -would be waslied so clean 
the old parties couldn't pick out their own linen!" 

Then he spoke up and says, " Why, ynu kn<iw Saint I'aul says 
women sliouldn't even speak in meetin". to say nothing about other 
public places.'" 

That kinder stirred nie up, and I says, says I "Tluit's jest like a 
man for all the world. No iileas of iiis own, and so has to take up 
with somebody's sayings that were read off hundreds of years ago. 
Why don't you tliink for yourself, and lie original, and rmt lie for ever- 
lastingly following in somebody else's footsteps." 

If there is anything in St. Paul's writings that makes me think that 
they were not all inspired, it is the passage where he says, "Let your 
women keep silence in the churches. . . for it is a shame for women 
to speak in the church." Of course times wrre not then as they are 
now, but they were jest the same for Saint I'aul as they were for our 
Saviour, and whoever heard of Clirist rebuking a woman lur speaking 
in meeting or anywhere else, if slie spoke the truth .'' 

Aiul so I told him. "Saint I'aul probably forgut how many wdmen 
talked to Jesus, and Imw hr enjoyed conversing with INIaiy and Martha. 
and never felt that they were talking out of theii- splieie, either. I 
guess if they could talk with him in the body, wnmen can tell of his 
wmiilrons goodness in diurrhrs without breaking the law. and Saint 



76 TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 

Paul ought to have known it. But probably he didn't think, because 
he'd Ijeen so accustomed to see how the Jew-s had kept their \\onien 
under in the old administration of things. But they don't have any 
weight to-day, and you've no business to c[Uote them. If jou was gen- 
erous toward womankind you'd want to hear from the motheis of this 
land every day in the year, and you'd vote for it, too.'" 

Why. what would this world come to if it wasn't for the mothers? 
When a boy is wayward, whose heart is it that is tender enough to fol- 
low him and git him back into good society again? The mother's, of 
course. Sometimes a boy gits into prison by bad associations, and his 
father says -Serves him right: we've done all we coidd for him. and 
now he's dejjarted from our teachings, and he must suffer the conse- 
(juencesl" And so he turns his back upon his own son. But his 
mother takes him a bouquet of flowers the first time they will let her go 
into the prison to see her boy, and she keeps taking them, along with 
her good counsel, letting him know that the sun's rays have not gone 
out altogether, and that there is a chance for fallen humanity if they 
will only try to do better. She can't forgit the cradle, and the lullabys 
she used to sing, and how his little toddling feet came into the house 
with his little being laden with a mountain of trouble, which a kiss 
and a hug from mother would brush away, and then out to play again. 
She remembers graduation day. how he shared in the honors of the 
occasion, and how proud she was when he went out into the world to 
earn his own living. How his every success was a joy to her, and to 
his father as well — iiut fathers can forgit, but mothers never. She 
would not believe her son was bad at heart, for he had told her he was 
innocent: she laid the whole aft'air to the hard influences of this cruel 
wiirld. At the end of six months it was ]iriivcn that her hoy was inno- 
cent of the crime, aiul he was a free man.' Can you tell me the depth 
of tiie joy in tlie soul of tliat mother? Words are not eiuiugh. <)t' 
t'ourse the father is reconciled, and will tell you that "all of the time 
he didn't believe Ja<-k was guilt\-." O. let the nicitliers talk. Let 
them have tlicir way in matters that will make men bcttei'. \ aw can 
trust tiie mothers. They won't sell their votes, and they won't lie. 
It's better to be lied to your mother's apron strings than to be hitched 
up to a chain gang, ilut "(isn't nece.ssary to be tied to eithei-. American 
mothers are not sellisli. They oidv want their bovs to lie nolilc men. 
and their giils to be ncible women. 

Then I says. "Talk about women holding the plow and doing sech 
like woik, to man's disgi-ace be it said, she's done too much already. 1 
know of lot of women riglit here in New England who weed onions, 
iioe corn, and help to do all kinds of harvesting, and their husbands 
don't object, nuther. W'licn they were fii-st niarried, no doubt they 
didn't want tjiem to soil tlii'ir liaiids with sucli an occnpat ion. but as 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. ^^ 

time wore on tliey soon got to thinking that a sunhnrned face anil nuis- 
culine liands were dreadful becoming to the women folks of their 
houses, because it helped to pay the taxes. Now, no honest wife ob- 
jects to do her share of labor in helping to pay for the farm or a house 
in tiie city, but her sphere of lal)or should come within the home, 
strictly speaking, and slie never ought to allow herself to do the kind 
of work that was designed for man and horses to do. But that doesn't 
mean that she shall not have any voice in ethical, social, political and 
other matters pertaining to the life of this world." 

"Yes," says he, "there you are agin, running riyht ui) against the 
ideas of some of our biggest men. Why, "Mand}-, your favorite min- 
ister. Mr. Talmage, said onl}- a little while ago that women ought to be 
satisfied with the kind of lives that were lived in old Bible times, such 
as was lived by the Dorcases, the Rebeccas and the Hannahs of the Old 
Testament. Now, wliat's the use in talkin" agin" sech big preachers as 
he is? They've studied into the matter, and ought to know all about 
it. You are jest wastin" time in trying to talk "em down."" 

"Now," says I, "Toleration, ] certainly have had a high opiiiinu 
of Dr. Talmage — think he"s one of the best pieachers in the world, but 
I've always noticed that all of our greatest men have one or more fail- 
ings in their nature as well as other folks, and Dr. Talmage's besetthig 
weakness is evidently his inhumanity to women. He pi'obably has 
never let go of theology long enough to see that it's [lossible for the 
Twentieth Century woman to live, move, and have her being among 
the people of the world, thinking with them, talking with them, and 
acting with thrui on a plane tliat is equal for all human beings alike, 
and at the same time live lives as profitable, as pure, and as mucli for 
the home life as ever any of the Haunalis oi' Rel)eccas of any pei'iod in 
the world's historj' have ever lived ! "" 

"Of course you'll have to argue and talk."" says lie, "but "tw(iu"t 
do any good." 

"Time'll tell," says I, "whether it'll do any good or not I lt"s 
enough sight lietter for humanity to argue than it is to sit down under 
sech statements and accejDt them as the doctrine of the universe, when 
the fact is they amount to only one man's opinion. The Doctor says 
he could name twenty living Presbyterian ministers of I'eligion wiio 
could make a l)etter creed tliaii John Calvin did, and Tve no doul)t 
that it is true: but it"s my opinion that I can name twenty American 
women that could make a iictter and less bigoted ci'ced than all the 
Piesbyteiian ministers ]iut together, with all tlie jireaciiers of the oilier 
churches thrown in. Fact on't is man as a rule thinks he's got a mind 
and lieart as liroad as the Atlantic Ocean, but jest as soon as you cross 
his ideas of the hereafter and the right system on earth for saving 
man's soul from damnation, he becomes as narrow as a mill ract>. Now. 



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woinaii is different. Yuu can reason with a wimian. It slie s on tlie 
wrono- traeli, she's willing to looiv into tlic matter, lint whatever she 
helieves slie follows up with more consisteney than man ever thought of 
doing. Why is it that women makes wp nine-tenths of the attendance 
at prayer meetings as a rule '.'' Because she lives her religion more con- 
sistentlv than man does. "Twould be just the same -with politics. She'd 
make no half-way work about it." 

" Wal," says Toleration, "If you won't say any more about it, we'll 
take a sail down the l>ay." 

And so we did. Toleration is a wonderful hand to make state- 
ments, l)ut he ain't got any gift for proving anything. But 1 didn't 
stop talkin". After the boat had started, 1 says, says I, "Talk about 
the usefulness of women and her natural rights, you must l)e l)lind if 
you can't see that man is entirelj' sellisli in the matter. Vou was dread- 
fully well pleased when I was elected President of the Women's Aid 
Society, and so was Deacon Johnson and the minister. Well, the long 
and short of it was you all thought I could make myself wonderfidly 
useful, along with the society, in helping to raise tlie fiunituie for 
the new parsonage, and so you thought you'd give nic a proportionate 
amount of praise, according to tlie iputntity of returns that you expected 
to git in furniturel Now, if woman is qualified to raise furniture, she's 
(pialitied to raise taxes and lower taxes, make laws and unmake laws, 
jest as well as man is I We ain't agoin' to be satisfied with being elected 
to act on a festival connnittee, uidess we can be elected as a part of 
some delegation that has the power to nominate men and wniiien for 
])ul)lic office that will be a credit to the oflice that they are elected to 
till, and the time's a-eoming when everybody will see that this is the 
ri'i'ht condition of things, and w hen that happy time docs come, hoiu sty 
will b(! at a grcalt'r piciiiiiim than it e\ei' was before, and there won t 
lie half so much sin in the woild. And the best of all, man will lose 
some of his overbearing egotism, anil will stand up and recogin/e in 
liis daughters equal inttdligence and business eaiiacity with bis sons." 

"Well, well," savs Toleration, "don't talk so loud: ever\body on 
the lioat will hear yon I " 

I kept on until I guess he wnn't ever again refer to St. Paul or 
Dr. Taliiiagc to del'end his seltish ideas, for he said be thought he could 
enjo\ himself if h<' ciadd go off shore a cod-tisliing for a week oi' so, 
and when he goes olT like that I never go with him. Well, let him 
go; it'll give him a ehain'c to think it all o\er without an\lioily to 
interrupt. 



A Story of Southern Chivalry. 



TRAVELS IN NEW ENGLAND. 



[I want to tell a little story that relates to tlic outi-diiu' uf travel in New Kng- 
land, that came under my observation, and which will show, if it doesn't interest 
you, that you don't look through the same spectacles that I do. — Mm. 7'. t\"illiei-/orc('.^ 



JA.MES HOWARD, ii planter and ranchman, near Asliville, North 
Carolina, hail lalioieil many j'eais amono' the mountains of his 
native State, after the war was over, to gain a competency for his 

family in the occupation that liad been his father's before him — that 
of raising cattle for the Chicaoc) market and farming on a large scale. 
The "Cajrn," as he ■\\as called, for he had fit in the Rebellion at the 
head of a company of sturdy mountaineers, and had "•won his spuis," 
as they say, had been successful fr^m tlie standpoint of the estimate 
of liis neighbors, although jie ne\'er made any display of his wcaltJi, 
whatever that might be. 

The mountains round abuut his plantation and cattle ranges were 
noted for "moonslunf s," as they were called, anil it was no uncom- 
mon thing to lii^ar the crack of rifles off on lln' mountain side, which 
told of the meeting of I'ncle Sam's revenue otlicers with thi' owners uf 
the "stills'" that turned out the famous corn whiskey nr "mciuntaiii 
dew," as it was knuwn in that region. Sometimes it was a native of 
the State that was shot, and then again it would lie a (lovernment 
officer. "Tliese were trying times," the Cap'n wduld say, and then 
he'd relate some stories of these illicit distilhuics that fairly made me 
nervous. P>nt mine of the wealth that th(> Howards had accunudated 
had ever cnuic li(uii making whiskey on the mountains. He said tiiat 
many of these men were good citizens, but they were tUduded with the 
belief that the (rovernment had no right to interfere with tlie occupa- 
tion that gave them a scanty livelihood. 

Some ten years ago early one spring, it dawned upon ( 'apn Howard 
that ills family iiiid never visited New England, and that the sea shore 
or broad .\tlautie iiad never met tiieir vision. The more he tiionght 
the moi'c he was conviiu'cd tliat such a journey shoidd be taken, for it 
grew upon liiiii that such a trip would not (iid\ be lilji'il willi pleasure. 



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liut it Wduld help to polisli up the mainiers of his son ami daughter, 
Martha and John, for while they had been educated in the best schools 
of the State, they had not been given a wide field of travel. To be 
sure they had lieen down to Ashville and visited the great hotels there, 
and had become acquainted with man}- of the grand folks from differ- 
ent parts of the country, some of them being relatives: but they had 
not enjoyed the benefits that extensive travel gives to one in making 
up a free and graceful manner, so their father thought. 

After all has been sai<l, I l)elieve the grace that is developed in 
the home under mothers influence is the kind that is the most sought 
for, because it is of the retiring kind. But no matter, the Cap'n had 
suddenly come to the conclusion that he owed something to his 
children, and that was to let them see more of the world than they 
had ever seen before, and to begin right near by in New England. 

The matter was talked over with Mrs. Howard and everything 
settled that they should begin the journey in June, anil then Martha 
and John were given the plans for the coming summer. To say that 
it was an agreeable surprise would hardly exjiress their ap]n-eciatioii. 

The daughter was eighteen, one of those wide-awake Sduthcrn 
girls, as much given to life as any Yankee girl that I ever saw. Joim 
hail passed his twenty-second l)irthday, was a stalwart young man. 
fully six feet tall, with a maidy countenance that most any girl would 
call handsome. He was the greatest hoi-seman in the county, and as 
an athlete he was looked upon by the other young men of that section 
as just a little ahead of anybody else they had ever seen in- read about. 
No cowboy of the Western [)lains could round up a herd of cattle or 
do tricks in the saddle l)etter than he, was the connuon talk of his 
neighbors. And besides these acquirements, he was his father's right 
hand man in Imsiness matters. (irand in his bearing, nnassmning in 
manner, he al\\;i\s made a good inqircssion \\licre\er lie went, and 
friends came to him naturally. 

'i'he latii of .luiie the family had biildeii good-by to llieir friends 
and had taken tlir train for Norfolk, \'a.. where they were to take one 
of the steamers of tiie Norfolk Line for Providence, their destination 
l)eing Narragansett Pier, in Rhode Island. This route was selected 
because it would gix'e llieni all a taste of old ocean at once, and yet 
would not be a very long voyage. It was the steamer "(ieorge 
Appold."" one of the largest of the line. The weather was beautiful 
all the way, and eoiisequenth" the Howards' lirst experimie on llie 
deep was a favorable one. 

The sail up Narragansett Hay was like a dream to them, for ihey 
had never seen anything approaihing this, the Freneli Proad Kiver 
of their native State being tlie only considerable slreaiii they had e\er 
seen. Sailinu' in and out ainoiiL;- large and small islands on so large ;i 



TWENTIETH CIINTURV VACATION. 8i 

steamer, l)oth sides of the bay being dotted here and there with beauti- 
ful cottages, and again whole clusters of tlieni, passing numerous light 
houses, all kinds of sailing craft, steam tugs with strings of coal 
barges, steam yachts, schooners, and so on, made the closing part of 
their journey enchantingly interesting. 

At Providence they took the train for Narragansett I'ier, where 
thev were soon located in their hotel. 

Jdlni and Martha iiad l)Otli read a great deal of the attractiv^eness 
of tlie place, of tlie grand ocean views, the lieautiful drives, its Indian 




" With Vacluing Parlies off Narragansett Pier and Newport.'' 



lure, and so (Ui, timl so when tbf\ caiiic out ii[ioii ibr hotel pia/./.a after 
dinner, whicli facvd the «atcr and the ()eeaii Drive, they were not 
disa]i|iointed. 

A\va\ to the b'fl they Ijchelil tlie lieadhiiids of ('onaliieiit and 
Dutch Islands, the West Passage into ^iuragansett Pay, and further 
along the entrance to New])()rt Harbor. Directly in frotit was Pren- 
ton'sReef Lightship, and off to the right, as far as the eye could reach, 
was the broad exptmse of the oi'can, the view uninteiruptcd exce])t by 
numerous coasting vessels, with their white w^ngs sjiread in order to 
git till of tlie wind that they could to make good heailwav. Some of 

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tlieni were pointed uoi'theast, others southwest: some were apparently 
near by, while others were just showing their masts al>ove the horizon, 
apparently cominii;' up out of the ocean, which reminded Maltha of her 
early studies in geography that exjjlained by similar pictures how the 
earth's surface was round. Many more things along the sea shore told 
her how true her teacher was in training her mind on these marine 
sul)jects. 

John Howard became at once a favorite with the young men. 
First, because as an athlete they recognized he w^as as supple as an 
antelope and as strong as a young giant, but he seemed to make no 
account of his accomplishments. As a horseman none could eijual 
him, and in short lie l)ecame their champion Mithin a few weeks, be- 
cause he excelled in all of their sports, and such a man is always 
looked up to. 

He didn't seem to be given so much to indoor society, although 
the young ladies seemed to do all they could to make it as attractive 
for liim as for the other j-oung gentlemen, w lun they gave out some 
special programme for the evening, for they e\ idenlly had full as much 
respect for .lohn as their brothers had. 

Now, while we all know liiat ■•Handsome is tiiat handsome does." 
where is there a young girl living tiiat doesn't like to see a winsome face, 
that niay honestl}' be called liandsome, on the shoulders of a stalwart 
young man? And when that young man doesn't seem to fall in with 
the progrannues that young ladies prepare, of course they aie put to"t 
to find nut wherein tliej' are wanting in their powers to entertain. 
John continued to ])refer the out-door sports, although he would con- 
descend to be pres(>nt at some of the best etforts at the hotels and the 
Casino. 

'I'll!' I'lilnams (if ('liicago had liooked for four weeks at the Pier 
fi' .Iiih I lih. and w licu the\' arrived there was a natural acquaint- 
ance formed Ijetwcen them and the Ilowaids. Tlieir daughter Marion 
and Martha became lirm friends, and .lojni seemed to like the friend- 
shi]i tiiat liad grown up between ihcin. for he l)egan to be more pleased 
witii indoor amusements after lie had become actiuainteil witli Miss 
Putnam. It very soon became almost a daily occuiTence for them to 
be seen out yaciding together, taknig a drivi'. or enjoying the mid-day 
Ijath on tiie beach, along with his sister. 

Most an\biiii\ would Jiaxc said tiiis was a case of love at lirst 
sight, but as most anyiiody is liable to know notiiing about it. sensible 
folks don't generally say much, though the\ can think wiiat they 
clioose. It was tlic stri]<ing l)ciinty n! the girl tiiat made mc jump at 
this conclusion. 

Tlie niontli passed in a nunid of pleasure such as tliis great water- 
ing place is capable ol providing, and ^bll■lha had come to the con- 



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elusion tliiit wliiit she didn't know iihout lisliing iind yachting- was 
made up li\ llif kimwliMl^c that Marion and John liad acquired in tliat 
line. And then after the day's sport on tlie water, what deliglitful 
entertainments they had all enjoyed evenings at the diiTerent hotels. 
Taking all things together, surely this was j)niii(iuured hy the Howards 
the grandest place they could have chosen to enjoN- the lieauties and 
wonders of the sea shore. 

Ahout the middle of August it was proposed liy Mrs. Putnam that 
both families go to the White Mountains, that there might he a variety 




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" John and Marion often enjoyed horseback rides down ihe Glen Koad." 

to their sojcmrn. and give them a (diance to enjoy the autunui ioliage 
and to see some of the beauties of New England as they traveled along 
through the different towns. This was agreed u})on,and it was decided 
by Marion that they should go over into tlie State of Connecticut and 
visit the home of Gen. Putnam, and the wolf den in Pomfret, for even 
Mr. Putnam had never visited the home of his great grandfather, and 
therefore this offered too good an opportunity to let pass unnoticed. 

At Providence a fonrdiorse coacli \\as hired, and the party was 
driven through the wilds of Foster into Connecticuit, througli the main 
street of the beautiful village of Daniolson, one of the most cliai-ming 



84 TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 

little boroughs that they had ever visited, along tlie banks of liie 
Quinebaug, enjoying its beautiful scenery, and then on to Brooklyn 
Green, where the General lived at the l)reaking out of the Revolution — 
where, upon the first news of the approach of the British, he saddled 
his horse, called the farmers together, and marched to the defence of 
Bunker Hill. This was proving fully as interesting to the Howards as 
to the descendents of this sturdy old warrior. From Brooklyn they 
drove over the road leading toward Pomfret, and stopped at the farm 
house where Gen. Putnam spent the closing days of his life. 

From the place where the General died they continued on to the 
point which was of especial interest to all of the part}" — where the she- 
wolf was killed in her den, more than a century ago. She had lieen 
SI) much of an annoyance to the farmers of the town because she had 
killed so many of their sheep, it was determined to hunt her down, and 
finally they tracked her to a rocky hillside in a wild section of the 
town of Pomfret, and tliey at once proceeded to smoke her out. This, 
iiowever, was not successful, and as none of the slaves would consent 
to go into the den, Israel Putnam, then a young man, tied a rope to 
his ankle, and crawled into the den to make sure that the wolf was 
there, and satisfying himself, he went in the second time \\ith his 
nuisket and shot her, and going in the third time he took hold nf tin' 
ears of the wolf, and giving a kick upon the rope, he and ihr \\n\( 
were both pulled out together. From that time on the den became a 
point of interest, and thousands of people now visit it yearly. 

When the party arrived, they walked down the rocky hillside, and 
when they came out before the mouth of the den, ]\Ir. Putnam said, 
"There. Alarion, is where j'our paternal ancestor cniwleil in and siiol 
tiie wolf." The stones were chiseled and marked liy hundi-eds of visi- 
tors who were evidently desirous of leasing their names where they 
could be sei'U by a curious public, and the general surroundings were 
sucli as to impress one with what the early settlers had to ctmtend 
witli in this rugged section of New England. Tiiey lingered for an 
lioiii enjoying the wild scenery and commenting ujion the acti\ity that 
nnist have resulted upon the killing of the wolf in such an unusnai 
way, and aftei' a photograph had been taken, they tool< ihcir carriage 
again and ib-ovc over Pomfret Street, where so many New ^ orl^eis 
make their sunnner homes. Arriving at Putnam, tliey look the li-ain 
for I'xiston. To give the Howards a chance to see the city, a two 
days' stop over enalih'd them to visit its great institutions of learning, 
its various points of liistorieal interest, and so on. and then tlu'y took 
I lain for Glen Station, tlicir destination being the Glen House, tifteen 
miles up the valle\-, oni' of the famous sununer hostelries of those days. 

'I'be ridi- from Glen Slaiion was one ol the most interesting that 
lhe\ jjad e\cr enjoveil. and wlien the\ anivcd al the foot of Ml. Wash- 



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ingtoii, where the Glen House was located, the Howards tliought the 
scenery somewhat resembled that of their native mountains in North 
Carolina, although somewhat more striking in grandeur. 

Tiien hegan a series of mountain climliings and trijjs over tlie 
road that had l)ecome so famous as the only way to reach the summit 
of Mt. Washington liy I'arriagc, and ih.iwn the other side liy tlie e(jually 




" 'Ihey drove through the main street of the lieaulifiil villatje of Datiielscm." 

famous raih'oad. to Kahyaiis, Uclhlrlu'iii, .li'tlcrson. Liltlcton, and lia(d< 
through (Jniwford Notch to their liotid again. 

As the season wore on tiie relations between tlir Ihiwafds and liic 
Putntinis grew into tin- Hiiiicst frieudsiiiji. atid between Marion and 
John tiiere seemed to be a wartfith of rriciiilslii|i tliat miglit be called 
acute. 



86 TWENTIETH CENTrUY VACATION. 

All pleasant seasons have their ending, and this was no excei^tion. 
But the next year found the Putnams and the Howards again at the 
Glen, so pleased had they been with its charming scenery and invigor- 
ating air the year liefore. 

There were more mountain and coaching parties, an occasional 
spin on horseback, more pleasant walks by Emerald Pool, along moun- 
tain paths, through sweet meadows, and with rod and line whiling away 
a few hours l)y the banks of the Pealiody River, now and then catching 
a speckled beauty. 

These were halcyon days — bright places along life's pathway that 
can never be forgotten. To saj' that Marion Putnam and John Howard 
enjoyed these outings, anyone could see was only the simple truth. 

Martha, somehow, didn't go with them quite so often when they 
went for a stroll as she did the year ])efore, altliough they urged her to 
do so, for the sensible girl could see that lovers don't alwaN's want a 
lot of company along. She knew that her brother and JIarion liad 
already come to a mutual understanding, and that the engagement liad 
been sealed by a diamond ring only a few days before. And so the 
girl mused, "If I were somebody's sweetheart, I wouldn't like to have 
John always around, so as to about half spoil all the romance of an 
engagement among the mountains — the eternal hills — which is so 
syndiolic of never-ending fidelity. No, I wouldn't want even my 
brotlier as company, for lover's talk may sound silly to a third party, 
while it's real sound doctrine to tlie interested parties." And she w as 
not at all diffident in letting her l)rother know her sentiments. 

Did you ever know of an engagement ring that went unnoticed in 
a big liotel, or anywliere else where most everyljod}- knew everybody 
else? It isn't human nature. All the young lady guests made beauti- 
ful allusions to the niatrh, and tljc older folks all said tliat it was one 
of those happ\ unions that was surrounded with jest enough romance 
to make a love story good enougli for tlie Century Magazine, if only 
the sim])le trutii were told. 

Then I spoke up and said I never saw a more natural coming to- 
gether of two mortal souls, and ilieii 1 repeated what the ministers say, 
wliich is from the blessed Hilile: "What, tlierefore. (Sod hath joined 
togetiiei. let not man ptit asunder.'" I know tiiey read this at tiie 
wedding ceremony, but in my opinion it applies full as nnich when the 
agl'eeinent is made lietween two souls to join togetiier tlieir fortunes 
for life. 

Now. when .Mr. Putnam bi'gan to iiear some talk about his daugii- 
ter's engagement to young .Mr. IIo\var<l, he didn't seem as well jileased 
as most folks su[)posed lie woiUd have been. 1 dnn't know wiiether he 
wanted some foreign title to lie liitehed on lo tlie I'utnani eoiit-of-arnis. 
or wiiat it was; but im matter, lie e\identl\ was dis[)lease(|. 



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87 



He had ahvays seen Marion in the company of both jNIartha and 
her brother, wlien tlie girls were not by themselves, and so he evidently 
had not thonght of anything of a serious nature growing up between 
his daughter and young Howard. His mind had been too Inisy with 
business matters of late to have noticed much of anything else, even if 
it had come directly under his nose. 




He went to his wife and in an easy, off-hand maimer inijuired if 
she knew whether or not there was anything in the talk that he had 
heard about Marion and .Idbii Howard planning for a life partnership. 

Mrs. Putnam declared liiat there was, and that Clarion had talked 
tlie matter nvcr with her some time ago. She tnld him that the engage- 



88 TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 

lueut was concluded three days ago, and that .she and Marion intended 
to give him a surprise that very evening upon his return from Port- 
land, where he had lieen for a few day.s. 

Then the clouds burst, and the Putnam nature asserted itself in a 
way that was a disgrace to the honored name that had been handed 
down from the hero of the Revolution. He said, "^Ij' daughter shall 
never become the wife of a common planter and cattle herder I Visit- 
ing is one thing, but living is another. I say this matter nnist stop 
riglit where it is I It sliall be carried no further I These Southerners 
have come up here and stolen away our onty daughter, under the pre- 
tence of social relations. I have laid plans for Marion that shall make 
her one of the leaders of society, and they shall not be turned aside. 
Do you hear me / They »hall not he turned agiiJe.'" 

Then he spun off a lot of vehement slurs mixed with the bitterest 
sarcasm about the Howard famil}-, and then turning on his heel, said, 
•■ Where is young Howard?" and rushing down the main stairway to 
tiie lobl)y of the hotel lie met .folm just as he was coming in from a 
little jolt in the saddle, looking the picture of health and happiness, 
and addressing him, said: 

'■Well, young man. 1 understand yon iiave Iteen selecting a young 
lady here in the mountains for a partner in life to please yourself, 
regardless of the opinions or wishes of othei-s?" 

The young man was astonished at the remark, but was more self- 
possessed than Mr. Putnam, and seeing I)y his appearance tiiat he 
miglit make a scene, he invited him into the gentlemen's smoking 
room wliere tiiere was no one |iresent to listen to private matters. 

'■ Well," said John, •■ I am frank to say that I have come to a 
mutual undei'standing with a young huly that you are proud to call 
your daugliter, and if niattei's continue in the even tenor of their way 
as tliey usually do after such a sacre(l understanding, I shall In' satis- 
tied with the usual eliding when it shall please the jiareiits of the 
\-ouiig lady most interested in the matter to name the day." 

••Well, it doesn't please the parents of the lady you speak of to 
make any date for tile kind of ceremony that you are so anxious to 
propose I ^'ou've come here und(>r the iiretence of a friend and tried 
to steal away ni}- daughter, but you shall not do it! If you wait for 
me to s(doct the wedding day it will lie so many years to come you will 
long Ixd'ore tiiv of your fanciful matrimonial prospects I The \\hole 
procee(Hng is an insult, and it shall not go tliroiighl" 

•' P>ut Mr. Putnam — " said .John. 

'•No words! Words siionld iiave come before! What 1 want now 
is the nullifying of this contract, and that s[ieedily. Why, boy, you 
are but the son of a common Southern ])lanter, and for you to present 
your hand to a young huly of the station that Marion walks in was 

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iidtliiiig .short of an iu.siilt to her parents, ami such I take it. And I 
shall (leal with this affair aeeonlingly. Evidently your own father 
ahetted this thing, tool You must renieniher that the mere associating 
tiigether at a .summer resort is one thing, hut that does not carr\' with 
it any such privileges as you have usurped. I want no further talk 
upim the matter, hut I will say once again that you must give up my 
daughter! The hest thing you can do, young man, is to go hack to 
your native mountains and marry the (huighter of some moonshiner, 
and then .settle down for life in the sphere where you l)elongI"" 




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"There, Marion, i- uhcrc ynur paU-rnal ancestor crawled in and shot tlie wolf." 

'J"he hoi Sdiitlicrn hlood tluslied liie ftiee of the \(iuiig man, as he 
stood there witlidui mu'e attempting to resent the insults as they came 
thick and ftist, hut lie finally .said: "Mr. I'utntim, these are in.sults 
tluit no ordintiry man would endure under ordiiiiiry circumstances, and 
certainly the (piick hlood of a Southerner woidd resent them tirst of 
all others; hut hecause you are the father of the girl thtit I honor tind 
respect — yes, the young lady that I love - as much as you shotihl liave 
loved her mother when you stood hefore the alttir mil and swore 
to make her life ti htippv one 1 For this. I stiy, I will not tr^- to 



90 TWEXTIETH CENTURY VACATION'. 

satisfy the natural promptings of my nature, but will look upon your 
words as if they had never been said. As to the demand that you 
make, as unreasonable as it is. I will leave the whole matter to the 
wisdom of your daughter." 

Mr. Putnam talked with his wife and daughter that evening, and 
though every means that words could resort to were l)rought to bear 
to reconcile him, he resolved then and there to stay at the Glen no 
longer, and putting his words into effect, he telegraphed for rooms at 
anotlier hotel some twenty miles distant upon the other side of ]\It. 
Washington. 

In the meantime Cap'n Howard had heard of the insults that Mr. 
Putnam had given vent to, and unfortunately, too, for to quell the 
hot spirit that was rising into a storm in his l)reast was not to be put 
down so easj'. His wife, who was explaining what he had said, and 
offering an excuse because he spoke under intense passion, and realh' 
didn't mean what he said, implored him not to notice it. 

"But," said the Cap'n, "he said, I understand, that he wouldn't 
allow his daughter to marrj- the son of a common Southern planter or 
ranchman, and that lie believes that we have helped along this match 
making, or in other words have stolen away his daughter, and that we 
have insulted him by allowing our 'low bred' son to make love to Miss 
Marion, and to close his words of venom, he advises John to marry 
a daughter of some moonshiner among his native mountains."" 

"But, father,"" said Martha. "d()n"t notice it: he certainly did not 
mean what he said."" and then she threw her arms about her father's 
neck, and begged liim to wait for an apology wiiich would certainly 
come in due time. She knew her fatlier's expression and measured 
words meant trouble, and to think of a possilde scandal and jicrhaps a 
traged}' in a public liotel was terrible to think of. 

Putting his daughter gently aside, he said to his wife, "I've put 
up with a good man^^ insults, but none so acute as these I" Then he 
started for the door, with the intent to meet, as he said, "the old man 
Putnam I "" 

Martha went to the lobby to find lier brother, while her mother 
clung to the Cap"n as he stepped out into the hallwaj- opposite their 
suite of rooms, imploring him to stay and avoid a scene, if not some- 
thing worse. 

.My rooms were adjoining, and hearing a gentle commotion, I 
stepped out into the hallway, jest as the Cap'n was a saying that he 
had never swallowed such a lump of an insult and he couldn't do it 
now I Tlien Mrs. Howard called to me. and said in her dispair to not 
let liim go. because it meant sometliing a«fidl Then I spoke and says 
to tlie Cap"n: "It ain't any of my affairs, Mr. Howard, liut it"s the 
best opportunity to sliow what Southern chivalry can do that I ever 



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knew of. and now why don't yon do it? Can"t you see that _vi)U are 
on the very stamping ground of New England where every hody has 
always said that a Southerner can't hold his hosses, l)nt lets his temper 
run away with him like a wild steer, ^hieh shows how hot hlooded he 
is, naturally I Why not try it?" 

Just as I said "chivalry," John and Martha appeared at the lieail 
of the stairs, and the fii'st tiling his son said was, '-Yes, father, 'chiv- 
alry' — that's it. Southern chivalry I For the sake of the daughter, let 
this matter pass, and show what Southern blood is capable of doing 
under circumstances that are trying." The words seemed to touch 
him, and then when his own courting days were referred to, he turned 




' Uvci I'uiiifiet Mrcel, where ricli New NUrkeis come for the suiiiiiier." 



about and entered his room, saying that it was a hard dose to swallow. 

And so what promised to be a serious affair was averted, and when 
it was all over 1 was so nervous I couldn't sleej) for a week. 

True to his word the Putnams went over the mountains the next 
day to tiieir new hotel, and then Iiegan the first separation: hut it was 
only a matter of a niotintain or twi). and a few miles, and those don't 
count nmch with lovers unless something more serious dev(dops. 

Of course it was natural that such a sudden ending of social rela- 
tions made it dull for a few days at the Cilen. and the wonder de\'el()j)ed 
among the guests upon the sudden dei)arture of tlie Putnam family 



92 TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 

made it emlKuassing. Martha shed some tears over the unfortunate 
outcome of affairs, and John seemed to find some relief in tlie saddle, 
although the short trips that he made were generally by himself, unless 
occasionally Martha chose to accompany him. 

Tlie mails had carried some morsels of comfort liotli ways as they 
were delivered daily, hut the old gentleman Putnam was as relentless 
as ever, until ten days had elapsed, when a telegram from Chicago told 
him of the probable failure of one of the largest houses in St. Louis, 
his firm being one of the heaviest creditors. He seemed to soften up a 
bit after this, but said little. After the rumor had been confirmed by 
another telegram, Mr. Putnam went to Chicago post haste to see iiow 
bad matters Avere, and in two days he telegraphed his wife that unless 
•ifBOO.OOO was forthcoming his business was ruined I She felt that this 
was too large an amount for the company to possibly secure, and w hcii 
siie saw in the papers that there was notliing left for the Putuams to 
do but make an assignment she was not w holly surprised, but of course 
felt keenly for her husband because he was passing through a terrible 
ordeal, such as he had never experienced before. Of course love 
matters were lost sight of now, ancl all attention was on the final out- 
come of Putnam & Company, of Chicago. 

Of course the papers had carried the news to tin- outside world, 
and when .lohu Howard saw the auuouucement lu- naturally enough 
talked the matter over witii iiis father and the rest of tlie family, but 
what could be done? 

('ap"n Howard seemed to be keenl}- interested, and had another 
talk with his son upon the matter, the outcome of which was a telegram 
sent to tiieir Chicasfo aociit w ho had handled all of their cattle trade 
for years. Tlie ])apers didn't git hold of the contents of this telegram, 
but they did git hold of the announcement that Putnam \ Com])auy 
liad passed the crisis, and liieir affairs were so fixed U]i as to enable 
them to eontiune witliout iutcrruptiou. Tlie pa]iers spoke ol a "(lark 
horse." but liis name was not forthcoming. 

Mr. Putnam, liowever, was U't into tlie inside of the arraiigmeut, 
and lie ver\- soon learned tlial the "commou planter'" of North Caro- 
lina had iiioi-e eoiiiiiioii dollars at his disposal than he ever dreaiiiail ol I 
And these common dollars had saved his business from a crash that he 
l)robably never coid<l have lallied from! 

Well. I've alwavs said if you couldn't git at a man's heart througii 
his stomach, you can always make sure you can do it through his 
pocket-book. Here was an instance of the latter case. 

The i'utnams came liack over tlie mountains. Tiiere were some 
aiiologies and handshakings, and Mr. Putnam, looking as crestfallen as 
a \\lii|i|HMl (log, said thai lie ••iie\cr before had rcali/eil how liiUeli lolly 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 93 

call 1)6 developed in a Inunan soul, simj^ly because one thinks lie is 
supported by a pillar of gold that can never fail him I "" 

How true that is. Tlniusands of poor mortals suffer the hot pangs 
of remorse because they let a little money tnin their lieads into tlie 
ways of foolishness. 

On Thanksgiving Day of tlic same year there was a wedding at 
the plantation home of the Howards, under the shadows of the moun- 
tains of Nortli Carolina. A sj)ecial train had brought tlie friends of 
Marion from Chicago. Martha \\as leading bridesmaid. In tlie spa- 
cious parlor of a cjuaint Southern home, amid orange blossoms and a 
bdwer of tropical plants, the ceremony was performed that made Marion 
Putnam and John Howard man and wife. And when the minister said 
"What, therefore, God hath joined together, let not man put asunder," 
the bride's father was the first to say "Amen," and her mother nuist 
have said under lier breath, "And this is the beautiful outcome of 
Southern chivalry-." 



"TOLERATION" BEFORE THE GRANGE. 



The (irange had a meeting while we were in New Hampshire, and 
Toleration and I were invited to be present. They'd heard that he 
came from Providence where the Hudlongs were the greatest farmers in 
New England, and so they wanted him to come and tell them some- 
thing altout them. So we went, and I'm glad enough that we did, for 
1 never heard husband talk so well before in my life. He w as real 
common sense like and stood up for everything that had the best of 
principles. When he got through I felt as if I'd like to hug him. As 
a rule he generally has to say something that's good ami then go to 
woik and apologise because he's afraid soiiiebcidy's feeling will be hurt, 
liiit tiiis time lie didn't, and I was glad. I've got some hdjics I'dr him 
now . 

Well, they bad their business meeting, and tlien several nf I lie 
mciiilicrs got up and after talking about tlie jii-ospcrity of the cduiilry, 
its failings, etc., they struck into politics. Now 1 dim't think it's a 
good plan to talk politics in an organization of that kind, but thcv did, 
and everybody seemed to enjoy it, too, though some got a little warned 
11]) nil the subject. 

When they asked Toleration to say sdiiiethiiig he got uji and after 
telling them that it wasn't anything uneoiiiiiiiiii fdr the liudlongs of 
Rhode Island to plant ten or tifteen acres ol' cucumbers in one held and 
as many acres devoted to tomatoes, caidillow'er, and so on, and tliat 
they bdught thousands iif tons of horse manure every spi'ing to jiiit 



94 TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 

onto their land, so thick that 3-011 covihln"t st'e tlie soih and tliat their 
system of using fertilizer was the secret of their success, tliat their 
markets were New York and Boston : he said, " I'm glad to see j-our 
organization so prosperous, and hope it will continue right along with 
the genei-al prosperity of the country, for the farmers are entitled to 
their share of the good times. I see that there are a few conflicting 
opinions about the administration, and linding fault with the 'Imperi- 
alists,' and trying to throw off the responsihility resting on us as a 
nation in caring for, educating and Christianizing the natives of the 
islands that have come into our hands, and a lot of them standing 
ready to desert the very best interests of our country; while they have 
been doing this what has President McKinley been adoin'? What has 
Uncle William boon up to? Has he bi'iMi a skulkin' and hidin".' Not 
a minit? 

"When the talk lirst begun he jest reached u[) and look down the 
old saw-buck, greased up the old family saw, tiled her teeth with his 
own hands so she'd cut keen, and ever since he's been a saw in" wood, 
and there ain't been any let up to it nutlier. He sawed jest enough 
pine and cliestnut to make kindlings with, and then he lit into the oak, 
maple and birch, and about every other kind of \\ood that was sound, 
until now lie's got a pile in front of the old Yankee wood-shed so big 
that you can't git it under cover. The best wood tliat ever was grown 
in the best American forests, from timlicr that was cut in almost every 
State in the Union, from the spruce and hendock of .Maine and New 
Ilanipsliirc to th(! pines of Oregon. 

■'I tell ye gentlemen, it's mighty interestiii" (d hmk at. Wiiy, 
there's wood enough to keep the old Republican ciMik stove agoin' 
night and day for the next four years, and sonic to spare, without cuttin' 
another stick. They say the old range is '/'/</<•/-." but every house wife 
in the c()unti'\ will tell yuu thai that's the j)roper color, so you can 
shout 'black ]{('[)ublican " all you want to. She's the best baker that 
was ever molded or ever had a fire put into her, and she's agoin' to turn 
out some of the best bread, and some nf the biggest loaves that have 
ever been heard of since Pompeii with her big ovens was buried out of 
sight hundreds of years ago, by the lava from Mt. Vesuvius. 

"Who's agoin' to be the cook? Why, Uncle William, of course. 
He's goin' to be head Chef, and there ain't agoin" to be no foreign title 
hitched to his name nuther: and the bill of fare is goin' tn lie sj>elled 
in plain English, so you'll know what you"re agittin". Tlu' bread 
is goin to be made of whole wheal, the best that ran lie raised in 
Minnesota, and the dough is goin' to lie put togetlier liy InrU' William 
himself. He's mighty perticiilar about the kind of bread liis boys and 
girls have to eat, so there ain't agnin' in lie im half do/eii spdinis in the 
binvl at the same time while he's adoin' llie iiii\iii'. 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 



95 



•'You see he's studied into tlie chemical properties so nuieli he 
knows jest the right proportions of cream of tartar and saleratus to put 
in to make good biscuit and good rolls, and knows all of the partizan 
adulterations so well they can't git any of their stuff into his dough, 
not while his eyes are open. So, ladies and gentlemen, you iice(hrt 



worry about wliat 
the next four years 

'•You can count 
to be a mother in all 
tlie kind of food tliat 
is in her arms that 
tiiere ain't goin' to 
chin, nor a dirty 
tliat will have all the 
and a jar of jam all his 
run his fingers in and 
as lie chooses,aud nobody 
was saved for covipanyT 
round spanking. 

••No, sir. We've 
ilerstands his business, 
back down and desert 
family, nor aii^- of their 
i/ol darn f'ori'i(/iier and 
the country hol/crs hack 

" Every la) wring 
that is out of a job but 
to work, is agoin' to be 
and Uncle William is 
they're fed on the fat of 
same as company always 
aint anybody goin* to 
he's the boss cook. 

•• Now you farmers 
half open if you can't 
have to plant an extra 
the demand that such a 
cook is bound to create, 
wuth more, wJieat will 



to 



fed 



im fill' 




ToleratiDii Hcf(ire the (Irange 



you re 
or so. 

upon it, tliciv aint agnin" 

America, that will want lor 

will nourish the child that 

(iiHl has given her, and 

be a red haired ur- 

faced boot-lilack liut 

tarts that he can eat, 

own, so that he can 

lick them off as often 

to tell him ' tliat jam 

and then given a 

got a man that iin- 
iind he ain't agoin" to 
his administration 
relations, not if every 
ilixiirunth'd native in 
and pokex fan at hi in. 
man, and every man 
who honestly wants 
put do\\n as company, 
giiin' to see tliat 
the land jest the 
siiould be. There 
be liungry as long as 

haven't got your eyes 
.see that you'll all 
acre or two to meet 
thrifty old-fashioned 
Corn's bound to l)e 
be wuth more, vege- 
ibor will be so nnuh better paid 



tables will fetch a bigger price, and 

the masses can stand tiie advance in prices. If your sheep could raise 
a second crop of wool in a year the chances will l)e good for selling 
every ounce of it at a good tigure, because tlie i)eoj)le will have the 
money to buy good woolen clothes with, and your hog crop w ill be 



96 TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 

ill t'i|ually gooil ileiuaiul. Tliere"s no use in denying these facts. 

'• You can shout about your Bryans all you want to, and I'll shout 
with ye, for I lielieve he's one of the cleanest, best men I know of, hut 
I don't believe we want to put him in boss cook, for he don't know 
enough about the chemical properties that brings out real good pastr^^ 
such as the epicurean tastes of the American jDCople are a calling for,, 
and l)eing a novice at the business it would be natural for him to turn 
the culinary department over to some of his pupils, and of course they'd 
be true to his instructions and insist on jMitting in eveiTthing in the 
proportion of 1(1 to 1, and every woman in America knows that that 
ratio would spile ever\tliing from a Inaf of rake to a pan of biscuit, and 
that would never do. 

" Now, gentlemen, in closing my remarks. I want to say, vote 
your convictions every time, but in my opinion, if you are on the right 
track, and know wlien you are well off, and that which is best for 
yourself and your country, — tliat which will give her the prosperity 
th it she's entitled to, — every one of you farmers will go to the polls and 
vote for the man that understands the chemical properties and know.s. 
how to run the fires so that things won't spile." 



SUMMER RESORTS IN MAINE. 

Thert^ are many interesting seaside and mountain resorts in iIk^ 
State of Maine, which space does not permit me to say very nuuii 
al)iiut. Tliey are, nevertheless, full as attractive as can be found any- 
wiicre. anel tliousands make their summer home there. 'I'he jirincipal 
seasiiore places an- ()id ( )rchard and \ drk liriiclies. Kenneliunkport, 
Casco Bay and many more. Inland yon will lind a numerous nnndier 
of excellent resorts, with good hostcli'ies, including Poland S[)rings» 
Moosehead Lake, the Rangeleys, and so many more it wouhl ie(|uire a 
large book to d(^sc^ih.' them all. The grandest scenery, givat pine 
forests, and the most piolilic lishing grounds in the wmld. 

If you can't liud a place in New Eugland tli it will snit youi' folks, 
then tliey must li.' dreailful fussy and paiticnlar. 

There is no place in America wiierc the niunth ol ()ctobi'r is made 
use of to better advantage than in the State of .Maine. In the North 
woods of that State deer, eai-ihon and moose abound as almost every- 
liodv knows, and ever\' fall thousands go there round abont New 
Sweden and other neigiihoring places, to enjoy the spoit. and llicii 
come home and tell their wives and Iricnds all about their c\[iericnces 
in lansjuatre tiiai is sniilinie and more or less Irulhl'ul. 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 



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If you are going Camping or Vachling this summer 
your fquipment is not coniplL-te wilhout 

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Clean and odorless. 

Weigh only from 

10 to 12 pounds. 




Will not absorb 
moisture. 

When deflated can be 
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J or bag. 



style 61. camp mattress with pillow flttacmed. 
(also smowinq mattress deflated, ) 

The Ideal Bed for Summer Homes at the Seashore or Mountains. 

AIR CUSHIONS 

Made to fit any size or shape of seat. Also Office Chair Cushions. 
Send for Illustrated Catalogue and Booklet * ' What People Say about Perfection Air Goods . 



MECHANICAL FABRIC CO. 



Providence, R. I., U. S. A. 




FRIENDS' SCHOOL 



FOH BOTH SEXES. 

FOUNDED IN f7S4. 



A iicIiL;litful liomt sclmol. Auciulcil by siiuiciits i>i .ill dciniuiiiialioiis ;iiul tcptt.sL-ium^ iS Stiitcs. Curricu- 
lum includes thorough courses in English, Science, Classics, Music and .^rt, wilh every facility fur pleasant and 
profitatjle study. Buildings large and convenient, with all modern improvements. Faculty composed of experi- 
enced and progressive instructors. Address Auflfustine Jones. LL. B., pRnvinpst k. U. I. 

(A) 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 



The New Rockingham Hotel, 

NARRAGANSETT PIER, R. I., 

Will open for the 
season of 1900, 
on Wednesday, 
June 20th. 

Thirty rooms, 
twelve bath 
rooms and other 
improvements 
have been added 
to increase the 
comfort and ease 
of the guests. 

Situated on the 
Main Drive l)e- 
tween the Casino 
and the Bathing 
Beach, the Hotel 
commands at all 
times the best 
view of the ever 
varying life of the Pier. 

An orchestra is in attendance throughout the season and the cuisine is such as to meet 
with the approval of the epicure. 

Your patronage is earnestly solicited with the conviction thai we can acquit ourselves 
with the same degree of satisfaction to our guests of the future as we have to those of the past. 




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J. G. BURNS & SON, Proprietors. 




TWENTIETH CENTURY \-ACATION. 



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THE IMPERIAL, NARRAGAWSETT PinK, k. i., W. A NYE, Proprietor. 
Open from June to October. Send for Booklet. Mention this Magazine. 




THE MASSASOir, NARRAGANSETT PIER, R. I., JOHN BABCOCK, Superintendent. 

The Mnssasoit has a superb location on (he highest crounii ovL-rlookin;; the Atlantu: Occ.'ui. U ts within five 
minutes <'f the R. R. iVpot, two minutes of the bathing bsach and a tew rods from the Casino. It lias accom- 
modations for 150 guests, has 260 feet of piaz/:i. is provided with modern fire escapes, has water on each floor 
for tire and other purposes, and every floor is reached by a Gra\cs hydraulic passenijcr elevator. In every par- 
ticular this house is a most desirable svimmcr horn-.'. Modern conveniences. Five daily mails. Telephone in 
house. 'I'elegrapbic connection with all points, near at hand. .Applications by mail or telcRraph will receive 
prompt attention. 



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TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 



Greene's Inn, Narragansett Pier. 



open the Entire Year. 



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This inn is tie- 
signed to supply 
a recognize l1 
want here. %'i2. : 
" A good all-the- 
year-round 
house," eiiually 
adapted to sum- 
mer and winter 
req u i re nicnt>. 
The house w.is 
designed with ilif 
intention of pro- 
ducing a hostlery 
that would fur- 
nish the creatuie 
comforts so com- 
monly found in 
some of the Eng- 
lish inns, and 
which the great 
ca r a van saries 
lining our coast 
are furthest pos- 
sible from fur- 
nishing. 

The house is 
strictly first-class 
in all itsappoim- 
meiit^^, baggage 
and passenger 

elevators; heated by steam as well as open fires; rooms en suite with private baths, as well as public baths on 
each no<ir; a perfect system of drainage and a water supply from a living spring, puie as crystal. The kitchen, 
laundry, servants' quarters, etc, are entirely removed from the main house. The advantage of this arrangement 
IS obvious. A large and well appointed stable is in connection with the house. 

Remembcrthat Greene's Inn " isopen all the year." and is just the place to come when you need a change of 
scene and air. Fry it ■' .uit of seas -n." It wilUaveycii many a doctor's bill. 

Natharael R. Greene. Prop Greene's inn. Narra^ansett Pier. R. I 



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THE ARLINQ ION, narraoansett pihr. r i. 

A <inict, rcMtriilhoiiiL'likf hoii'l. niiVriinr t-vt'iy t(m»fort ami tonvenience, a iMumtifnl table 
with r\irlleiit wervlco itt e.\c«'Ofllnj;!.v iii.nlerate iirires. KAKNKST L. CASWKLL, Pmp. 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 



VII 




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THE NEW HOTEL GLADSTONE— '^'"■">>;-^'^''«'"'"' ••"ommedalingaboul 300 guests, 
appeals lo the most rennea taste. 1 he house is beau- 
tifully located but a step trom the ocean and bathin.;^ beach, and in close touch with the gaiety at Sherry's 
Casino. While possessing all the attractions incident lo ocean resorts, il combines the (harm of shaded lawn and 
noble trees, with a touch of " green couniry " so rarely found by the sea. 

Near by is the "' South County Golf Club," and at " Point Judith" the •" Country Club" aUo have polo 
grounds and an iS-link golf course. 

A feature of the hotel will be the fine orchestral music morning and evening. 
Bicycle polo daily on The New Gladstone grounds facing the piazza. 

J. J. nOTV, Pp.prit 



Narragansett Pit-r, K. 1. 




THK h..n^c islMiely L.^cied 
on a h 1 e h elevation, 
which affords a charming 
vitw fiom all points. The 
surrounding scenery, with 
iicean, country and river com- 
bined, is unsurpassed on the 
Atlantic coast. The " Petta- 
i|nainscutt" offers numerous 
attractions to summer visitors, 
in that it iscotnitiy and sea- 
shore combined. All guests, 
upon anival and departure, 
will be taken to and from the 
station or steamboat landings 
free of charge. The boarti 
walk, which is laid from the 
liouse to the beach, makes a 
mo.'ii dclifilitfnl i>ronienade in 
the afternoon. 

The cuisine is first-class. 
Puic spring water is used for 
all purposes. The house is 
lighted by electricity and con- 
nected by telephone. A stable 
is .,>nn..ti:d. Address: 



THE PETTAQUAMSCUTT, Narragansett Pier, R I. 
Open from June ist to October ist. 



PROPRIHOR. 

Narragansett Pier, R. I. 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION 



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275 Westminster St., Providence, R. L, 

Has won a reputation in the Catering Business that is unsurpassed by 

any similar house in any of the American Cities. 
Sojourners in Providence or the General Public when "down town" should 

Cuticb or Cake Dinner at their Dining Rail, 

Which is the Most Attractive Dining Room in the city, Richly Deco- 
rated in all that is Beautiful in Art, the Furnishings being 
in Good Accord. 

PERFECT SERVICE. 

CUISINE THE BEST. 

FRENCH CHEF. 

Orchestral Concerts Daily from 12:30 to 2:30; 6:00 to 8:00 and 10:00 to 12:00 p. m. 

L. A. TILLINGHAST, Manager. 



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YOU SHOULD AT ONCE > 



TRILBY SHOE POLISH 

Is made from a combination of Pure Refined Oils. 

Made in THREE COLORS: 
RUSSET, CHOCOLATE and BLACK. 

11 i:\(i ri>Ks iioisri Ki:. 

KKKI'n Till-: SHOI-: SOl'T 

ANH AIAVAVS LOOKING NHW. 

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CAMPELLO, MASS. 

I f yon 4-Htiiiot (ii't it at your loral tlriilrr, Ht'ml direct 
to UK. <-tiiioNl()i;; '^5 t-ciitH hi HliliiipH. 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. rx 

The East Greenwich Academy, 

EAST GREENWICH, R. I. 



ONE OF THE OLDEST AND BEST SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED 
STATES.— FOUNDED 1802. 



ELEVEN TEACHERS. 



LOCATION — In the most beautiful and healthful section 
of New England, overlooking Narragansett Bay. Absolutely 
no malaria. 

TEN COURSES OF STUDY— Elementary English, 
Classical, Latin Scientific, Scientific, Academic, Commercial, 
Amanuensis, Music, Art and Elocution. The Classical, 
Latin Scientific and Scientific courses prepare for the best 
colleges and scientific schools. Commercial students aided in 
securing positions. 

EXCELLENT HOME INFLUENCES, with constant 
care for health and morals of students. 

CO-EDUCATIONAL — Terms very moderate, $200 per 
year in advance paying for Tuition, Board, Room, Light, 
Heat and Laundry. 

([^Exceptional opportunities for self-help offered to a limited num- 
ber of worthy young men and women. 

Fall Term opens Tuesday, September i i, 1900. 
Write for catalogue or detailed information to 

REV. AMBRIE FIELD, PrincipaL 



NEWPORT & WICKFORD R. R. & STEAIYIBOAT CO. 



In Effect 



THE WICKFORD ROUTE. 

[Stil»ji.-rt tu cluinse wuli<iiit notii-r.} 



June 10. 1900. 



KROM NEWPORT. 



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New London *' 

Saybrook " 

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ltri(igeport " 

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16 Hue Marleni lihcr Slatl'ni. New York. •_' t'.". a.m.. I'liliadelpliia. ll-ii' a. ni.. baillii.oit-. '.'.'.".ta. iii.. Wa^li- 

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TO NEWPORT. 



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l*i9i Wickford .Junction. 
If.'.i Wickloril .lunction . 

171 Itellcville 

Wickford.. 



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The Popular Wickford and Shore Line Route between Newport, New York, Providence and Boston. 
Drawing Kuum Cars on Day Trains. SUeping Cars on Night Trains. 

Tickets sold and baggage clieckeil at Steamer i;i:.m:ii.m.. Coniincrcial Wharf, at Transfer Co.'s 
(Hlice, No. ;to E'ludder's Block. Bellcvuo avenue, cnr Catherine street. 

Drawing K<")ni ( ar ( hairs and Sleeping Car Berths can be .secured at Company's Otllce, Com- 
mercial Wharf. 

This Tinie-'fable shows the time at which trains inav be expected to arrive at, and depart from, 
the several stations; but their arrival or departure at the time stated is not guaranteed, nor does 

the c jianv hobl itself resjionsilde for any delay, or any conseipiences arising theiofrom. The 

time of con'neclliig roads Is shown only for the convenience of the public. This company will 
not be responsible for errors or rhaiigcs that may occur. 

•following this train Is the Ihiinigh Federal I'.xpress (via Harlem Uiver), leaving \Vashington 
.',.00 p. Ml., Baltimore .'i.'iH p. m., I'hihulelphia 8.10 p.m., due at Wickford ,)uiiction .').14 a.m., 
Newport 0.3.% a. m. 

Close eoniicetloiis with boat^ for .lamestown and Block I-I;iiid 

C. U. COFFIN. Agent. Newport. R. I. 



iNo, IK Icavi's Ni'w York 
nrda.vsoiily , till Sept. Isl. 



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Tlic house is plcasanily siliiaieci on tlie western shores of Nnrrjiiranselt Bay, a tew rods from ihc beach, 
and conimrtndsa hroad view of the bay, one of the most beautiful sheets of water on the coast, ami affording un- 
e<iuaUe(l opportunities for boatini:. fisnini;, :uu\ balhine. 

Cold Sprinji I'.each, which extends in front <if the hdiisc. has Ion;; been noted as the llncst on the bay, and 
IS entirely free from the dangerotis undertow which is so prevalent in surf bathing. 

At a short distance from the house lies the old village of Wickford. which quietly nestles at the head of 
Wickford P>ay, origin:ilIy made famous, historically, as the hend(]uarters of the Narragausett Sachems. 

The Cohi Spring Golf Links are situated on a nu>st beautiful site overlooking the bay. 

The house is only three minutes walk from the depot and steamboat landing. 

Stable connected with the hnuse. 

The hotel is thoroughly furnished with all the latest improvements, including lintlir<nnns. etc. The hall or 
lobby of the hotel has been enlarged this season. Address: 

T. C. PEIRCE & SON, Wickford, R. I. 



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Jamestown, ^. ^. 



THIS well-known and popular hotel, localeil on the water front, overlooking Newport 
Harhor, opened for the season of nineteen hundred June 15th, under new management. 
Many iniprovemenls have been made since last season — electric lights in all rooms, 
kitchen enlarged and renioileletl, new music room, complete refurnishing of forty cliambers, and 
many others. It has steam heat, electric hells, large airy rooms, spacious closets, baths, ele- 
vator. Long Distance telephone and \V. L'. telegraph ofiice is but one minute's walk from 
hotel. The cuisine will be first-class and everything possiliie will be done for the comfort and 
convenience of guests. 

Golf links are but a short distance from the hotel, good boating, bathing, fishing, pure 
drinking water. 

The Thorndikc will be conducted this year by Mr. F. H. Chester and Mr. M. S. Gibson, 
men with long experience in the hotel business. Mr. Gibson was formerly proprietor of the 
I'reble House, Portland, Me.; the Ottawa House, Cushing"s Island, Me.: the Lookout Inn, 
on Lookout M(juntain, Tennessee, and last season of the Magnolia, Magnolia, Mass. Mr. 
Ciiester, manager of the Glen Ibuise, While Moimtains. N. II.: the Masconomo, Manchester- 
by-lhe-.Sea, Mass.; Tnileries and Kmpire, Hoston, Mass., and for nine years with the Hotel 
Hrunswick, Boston. They will maUc the Thorndike a first-class, select family hotel at mod- 
crate rales. 

Jamecstown is most easily accessible from Newport, the steam ferry running about once 
an hour. Newport may be reached from New York by the steamers of the Fall Kiver Line, 
coming direct to Newport or Fall Kiver, or by the Shore Line, connecting with steamer at 
Wickford for Newport. It is di-.tant from Boston about seventy miles via the Old Colony 
Division of the N. \ ., N. II. & II. K. K., direct to Newport, or via the Fall Kiver line of 
steamers. 

For information regarding rooms, rates, etc., address 

111. ClIKSTFR CO., 

Iamkstown, K. I. 



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DINING ROOM— THE ALLEN RESTAURANT, NEWPORT. 



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139 THAMES ST., 
Newport. 

Best Restaurant this side of New 
York. T\venty mirrors. Four Elec- 
tric Fans. CUISINK unsuriiassed. 
FIXE CHEF. Prompt .Service. Dec- 
orated in white and gohl. 

7lfsa/s at alt Sifours. 



Oysters, Clams, Salads, Broiled Live 

Lobsters, Home-Made Pies, 

Bread, Cake and Ice 

Cream. 

D. B. ALLEN, Proprietor. 

Telephone Connertion. 




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Hygia Spa Caf^, Newport. 

At llygia Spii C'afi', Ea.ston's Reach, Regular 
SHORE DIXXKR.S are served. 

Also Regular Cafo Service. 

D. B. ALLEN, Proprietor. 



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TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 







GARDNER HOUSE, Jamestown, Rhode Island. 

This hotel occupies the central position on Conanicul Island, commanding a tine view oi Newport Harbor, the 
War College, the Torpedo Station, and old Fort Adams. Modern conveniences: good stable connected with the 
house. The table is supplied with all vegetables and farm products from f.irins owned by the pr.jprietors. Pure 
Distilled Water is used exclusively i" the cuisine ;uid upon the table. 

Address N. S. LITTLEFIELD & SON, Proprietors. 

BAY VIEW HOUSE, Jamestown, R. 1. 

A delightful summer 
resort that lias come rap- 
idly to the front in the 
past few years, and wlucli 
is destined to become a 
second Newport, is 
Jamestown, the pretty 
summer settlement at the 
ocean end of Conanicut 
Island in N'arraganscit 
Bay. 

The Hay View House, 
one of the largest hotels 
at Jamestown, occupies a 
6ne location oveilookin^ 
the harbor and cominan<l 
ing a splendid view in all 
directions. With its coi 
tagcs and annex it ha 
ample nccommodations 
(or 400 people. T h e 
house is equipped with 
electric bells, elevator. 
gas and other modern 
improvements. Open from June to October. 

Cottage life at Jamestown is tjuite as popular as ai Xewpnrl, and indeed >omc of il 
by Jamestown's summer icsidcnts rival (he Newport villas in beauty and staiellness. 

Kor general iuformaiion in regard lo hotel r.ttes or prices of furnished cottages, apply to 

<II.\ICM:s T. K\0\Vl.i:s. Crnin l.-lor. Itiiy \it>\\ |Ii>iim'. .latiM-Htown, H. I, 




handsome estates owned 



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SITUATED or. a bluff overlooking the entire b.iy. harbor and bathing beach. Outside bath-houses free 
to guests: also hot salt water baths in the house free. Every room has an ocean view. Enlarged Dining 
Hall this season. 
Fresh fish, clams and lobsters direct from the ocean. Also fresh milk and vegetables direct from the farm. 
Bazaar connected with the house. Teams and boats can be obtained at the office. For further particulars 
send for circular or write. 

Rens^n:ib!e rate';. MRS. C. W. WILLIS, Proprietor. BLOCK ISLAND, R. I. 



Eureka Hotel 

Block Island, R. I. 



ENLARGED and IMPROVED 







Finely located on Hiy:li Ground ; No A\osquitoes ; 
Electric Bells ; New Music Hall ; Orchestra ; 
Lighted by Gas ; Drainajie to the Sea ; 
Long Distance Telephone; Excellent Table. 

.... 7l/ritc ^or Circii/ars. 
Carriages on Arrival of all boats. 

Open from June to October, 1900. 

,^) M. A. BALL, Prop. 



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SUMMER .« .« 
PUBLICATIONS 



ISSUED BY THE 



Bosfon ft Maine ||ailPoad 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



New England Scenery and 
Summer Resorts, 

FULLY ILLUSTRATED AND CONTAINING VALUABLE MAPS. 



Fishing and Hunting. l Southwest New Hampshire. 

All Along Shore. i Central Massachusetts. 

Among the Mountains. 1 Merrimack Valley. 

Lakes and Streams. Lake Sunapee. 

The Valley of the Connecticut and North- Lake Memphremagog and About There. 

ern Vermont. i The Monadnock Region. 

Southeast New Hampshire. ' E.xcursion and Summer Hotel Book — Free. 

ANY OF THE ABOVE PUBLICATIONS WILL BE SENT ON RECEIPT OF TWO CENTS 
IN STAMPS FOR EACH BOOK. 

PORTFOLIOS 

Comprising a series of Beautiful Half-Tone Reproductions of Photographs taken ex- 
pressly for these works, illustrating New England Scenery, have been 
published under the following titles : 

NEW ENGLAND LAKES, 

RIVERS OF NEW ENGLAND, 

MOUNTAINS OF NEW ENGLAND, 

SEASHORE OF NEW ENGLAND, 

PICTURESQUE NEW ENGLAND, 

Historic— Miscellaneous. 

Size of Illustrations, 4 x 6 inches. 

WILL BE MAILED UPON RECEIPT OF SIX CENTS EACH. 

Address, 

Passenger Department Boston & Maine Railroad, 

-— ^ liOSTON, HASS. 

I) J. FI.ANDKRS. (ieneral Passiimer and Ticket Anent. 



XX 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 



WHITE MOUNTAINS. 



The KEARSARGE, 

NORTH CONWAY, N. H. 




This wfll known hotel, rereiitiv iviiuxU-li-il :iiul exten.sivcly iinjirovcil. is now 
under the owneislii)) and niauagenicnt of residents of tlie beautiful village iu whieh 
it is loeated, and no pains will lie si)ared to make it an ideal resort, either for the 
party seeking a summer home, or for the traveler making a shorter stay to visit the 
noted places of interest at the oldest summer resort in New Hampshire, and desir- 
ing niagnilieent seenery. pure air and water, the best of sanitary eouditious, beau- 
tiful walks and drives, a lirstclass table, and honu> comforts at a moderate cost. 
Two hundred and lifty guests can be accommodated in rooms, large, well venti- 
lated, and lighted by electricity, the views from which cannot be surpassed in 
New llampsliiro. The hotel has modern appointments, including Steam Heat, 
Klectric liells. Telegraph and l.ong Dislance Telei)hone, Open riumbiiig and 
Private ISatlis. several having been aihled the |uesent season. -Spacious lawns and 
shaile trees surround the hotel, there are (iolf Links. Tennis Courts. Boating an<l 
Fishing. 

l''i>r liodklcl an<l rates ajijilv to 

.1, I,. i.lli--u\. Manager. 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 



XXI 



HOTEL EASTMAN, 

North Conwav, N. H. 




HOTEL KASTMAN, NORTH CONWAY, N. II. 

THIS IIOTKL lias long been noted imder the name of tlie '' Kastman IIousk," 
for its excellent table, shady lawns ami ample play-grounds for lawn tennis, 
croquet, etc. The views fnirn its limad piazzas and from the neighborhood 
(if the hotel are grand. 

During the last two years fifty rooms have licen added In llic liouse. giving 
aitomuiodations now to one hundred and si.xty guests. 

We have a large Music Room, Orchestra, Klectric Lights, and one of the finest 
Dining Rooms in the mountains, with ample accommodations for two hundred 
guests. I )ur own excellent farm furuislns the hotel daily with fresh vegetables, 
butter and milk. 

\ large and well-ei|uiii]icd Livery coniu-rlcil with llic hiitcd. 

Terms reasonal>le. ai cocr^ cactmiaim d 

ALFRED EASTMAN. Proprietor. 

NORTH CONWAY. N. H. 



XXII 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 



Randall House, 

White Mountains, 
North Conway, ----- New Hampshire. 



One of the Finest Locations in North Conwav. Noted tor 
its excellent table. l-''i\'e minutes walk to beautiful £rro\'es. Bath- 
rooms, electric lights and all modern improvements. 

IVrms : :? 2.00 per da\' ; 57.00 to Si 2.00 per week. Good 

LlVERV CONNECTED WITH THE HOTEL. 

For I'urther information address 

H. H. RANDALL, 

Proprietor. 

Oontpo Villci, 

North Conwav, N. H. 




(^pcns liine 
15111. Silualcd 
in the centre of 
llie town, directly 
iipposiletheKear- 
sarge House, it 
affords the finest 
views of the 
mountains that 
s u r r o u n d this 
broad valley. 

Go'jd table; 
modern improve- 
ments. Special 
rates for June and 
September. 



CENTRE VILLA, Norlli Cui.u.i>, N. H. licit G. Eastm»n, Proprietor. 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 



XXIII 




KEARSARGE HALL, (opposite the Kearsarge Hotel), NORTH CONWAY, N. H. 

MRS. L. J. RICKER, Proprietor. 
This hotel is open throughout the year. It is one of the most attractive houses in North Conway, situated 
on Main street, about half way between the Boston iS: Maine and Maine Central depots. Thompson's Grove is a 
pan of the grounds of Kearsarge Hall, including the walk to Artist Falls. The visitor at Kearsarge Hall finds 
every provision for comfort and enjoyment, such as electric lights, the best of plumbinij. grounds for croquet 
and tennis, and good accommodations forwheels. Milk and vegetables are supplied from the farm, and a first- 
class liver>' stable is connected with the house. The rooms in the house arc spacious, and from every one an 
elegant view is afforded. New additions this year. 

PENDEXTER MANSION AND COTTAGE, 

INTERVALE. N. H. 

Situated upon high ground; a grand view ot the mountauis 
and Intervale. Golt course. 

Special Ratks tor Ma\-, June and October; steam heat 
throughout. 

P. & C. P. P. DROWN, Proprietors. 

Uho iPequawket, Sntervale, 9/. Jf. 



T'llE I'E(^L'A\VKET lI()l"SEis beautifully located in one of the most charming valleys of 
New Hampshire, wiihiii full view of the White Mountains. Rooms large and com- 
fortable; electric lights; pure spring water; vegetables from the house garden. 

The most delightful walks and drives can be enjoyed throughout this region. Echo 
Lake, at the base of White Horse Ledge, has been leased by the house, and is stocked with 
salmon. 

MRS. H. A. VICKERY, Intervale, N. H. 



XXIV TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 

THE INTERVALE HOUSE, 

Intervale, N, H. 



The largest of the half dozen hotels at Intervale, is one of the best managed houses in 
New Hampshire. The view afforded from the front of the hotel is unsurpassed by 
any other in the White Mountains. Near by and to the east of the hotel is iSIt. Kearsarge, 
and in every direction lofty mountain peaks are visible, which serve to shut in one of the 
most charming valleys of all this mountain region. The walks and drives are beautiful: the 
house is equipped with a large stable. 

The Intervale House is furnished with all modern improvements and conveniences, 
and lighted throughout by electricity. There are bath rooms, steam heat and open fire- 
places, telegraph and long-distance telephone offices. The sanitary arrangements and drain- 
age are scientifically constructed. Pure water from a mountain spring in abundance. Tile 
cuisine is under the management of a first-class chef, and the products of the Intervale farm, 
combined with the choicest the market affords, render the tal)le unexceptionable. There are 
two cottages connected with the house. 



HERBERT S. MUDGETT, Proprietor, 

INTERVALE, N. H. 

Joseph OIney & Son, 



WHOLESALE AND RETAIL 



'!^=^i2^==^S^ cgg^^'^sa^^ 



COAL AND WOOD 

OFFICE: 
343 SOUTH WATER STREET, 

PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



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xxv^ 




THE RUSSELL COTTAGES, Kearsarge Village, Wortli Conway, N. H. 

The Russell Cottages are a collet-ln'ii oi" t>niU!ings lying in l he pictures<^ue glen of 
Kearsarge F.rook, with accommodations tor i>iit; huriiicrd and titty guests. The situation is near 
to the other fashionable hotels, shops and railroad stations of the village, but happily screened 
by deep woods and rocky ridges, thus enjoying a peace and serenity all their own. Before the 
doors flows the brook, a delightful place of rendesvous; and the background is occupied by the 
famous ledges overlooked by Moat Mountain itself. It is but one mile from the cottages to the 
base of Mount Kearsarge and four miles to its sunnnit. 

F. W. & H. W. RUSSELL, Proprietors. 




THE DELL, Kearsarge Village, Opposite the Hotel. 



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TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 




as at any place in the Stall', wlii'iv tlioy iiiii also JKivr 
sion after a hard day's trami). Coaoli t« and fmni all 
thehulel; four mails ilailv. I'or terms, etc.. address 



all 
tr:i 



THE NEW RIDGE 
and COTTAGES. 

Situated on the site of 
the old hotel that was 
burned, it is a perfeotly 
apjiointed. lirst-elass ho- 
tel, ill an exceptionally 
line location, uneaud one- 
halt miles from the N'orth 
Conway station, near the 
base of Mount Kear.sarge. 
Steam heat has been in- 
troduced, so that the 
guests may come early, 
or remain late in the au- 
tumn, and be comfort- 
able. The dining room 
is now in the .southeast 
I front) corner, with an 
open iire-place. Electric 
lights throughout — no 
nmre kerosene lamps. 
WestiMii Tniou telegraph 
in the house. Well- 
equipped livery stable in 
connection. 

The new house is com- 
pletely refurnished, in- 
cluding iron bedsteads 
and (juartered-oak suites 
for the chambers. Fish- 
ermen and hunters will 
liiid as good sport here 
the comforts of civiliza- 
ius. I'ost-otlice ojiposite 



H. H. DOW. Manager, 

KEARSARGE. N. H. 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 



XXVII 



The Iron Mountain House, 

JACKSON, N. H. 










In the heart of the White Mountains, and at the entrance of the famous Peabody Glen. 
The house is one of the most attractive and spacious of the Mountain houses; surrounded l^y 
broad piazzas. The house is supplied with pure spring water, and equipped with modern 
conveniences, including electric bells, electric lights, steam heat, (ire places, etc. Vegetables 
from the house garden, rich milk from the herd of cows owned by the proprietor. Stable 
connected with the house. Good trout fishing. This house opens early in June, and re- 
mains open until late in October. It will also be opened at any time during the winter 
months for parties who wish to visit the mountains to enjoy the beautiful scenery, fine 
sleighing and snow-shoeing. One of tlie nm^t desirable places for enjoying the autumn foli- 
age. Accommodates lOO guests. Guests are met at CAen Station, two and a half miles 
distant, by the hotel carriages on arrival of all trains from Boston. .Xddress : 

W. A, MESERVE, Manager, 

JACKSON, N. H. 



Send for Illustrated Booklet. 



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TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 




SQUAM LAKE 
HOUSE, 

J. i\1. Cotton, Prop., 

ASHLAND, N. H. 

This liiuise is snuitted at the 
gateway ol Smiam Lake, five 
minutes walk to boat landing. 
Good boating and fishing. 

The rioms are large and airy, 
newly furnished, with all modern 
improvements, inchiding hot and 
cold water baths. Lighted by 
electricity and heated by steam. 

SEND FOR CIRCULAR. 



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WATER TUBE BOILERS 

FOli 



Steamships, River Steamers, both propellers and stern wheels, 
Torpedo Boats, Fire Boats, Yachts, Launches, Donkey Boilers 
for Steam Ships, and for all kinds of Stationary Work 



'I'his I'xiilcr possesses mure; ailvantaj;es than any other Koiler. 

It ha^ Stood the Test of over ten years' constant daily use in passenger steamers, and is 
in Hse in many of the best steam yachts. It has proved its durability to be e<]ualled by none. 
It has shown from 10 to 15 per cent, saving in every-. lay work over the best Marine Fire-lube 
r.oiler. 

It is one-lhird the weight of the .Scotch Hoilcr for the same power and etiiciency. It is 
non-explosive. No priinini;. and ea^y to iManai;e. 



Almy Water-Tube Boiler Co. 

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PROVIDENCE, R. L 



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XXX 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 




MOUNT LIVERMORE HOUSE AND HALL. 




THE CiOLF. MT. LIVEHMOHE HOUSE. 

The .iliove houses aic run in connection with THE TOWERS, which is shown on opposite page. 

..... „ Address B. F. JEWELL, Proprietor, Holdcrness, N. H. 

Mount Livermore House. ' ' r y 



TWEXTIKTH CENTURY VACATION. 



XXXI 



. . Cbe Cowers. . . 



The Towers, in architeclutal attractiveness and general plan for convenience and com- 
fort, has no superior in any New England summer resort. The rooms are all arranged in 
suites, with hardwood floors throughout, and all affording broad views of the lake and moun- 
tain ranges. The lake is directly in front, to the left Red Hill and old Chocorua looms up 
grandly, the summit of the latter apparently almost reaching the sky. In the foreground, a 
little to the right, the Belknap range is plainly visil)le; further round to the westwartl are the 
Bridgewater ^Iountains, and to the northward Mount Livermore completes the circle, with 
minor peaks intervening at almost every point of the compass. 




THE TOWERS. 

.•\ public parlor leading out of the oftice fronts on the water; broad piazzas extend along 
the whole front of the house and around the sides. The dining hall in the centre of the 
house, with accommodations for 250 guests, is perfectly lighted with windows on both sides. 

Electric bells, perfect sanitary conditicms, the drainage being the best ; fine baths and 
toilet rooms, with perfect plmnbing. 

The house is well heated by hot water and hot air systems. 

Long-distance telephone connection. A large bowling alley affords healthful pastime 
for guests, (iood livery. 

.Ample conveniences for golf, tennis, and in fact all oul-door sports. ( iood fishing and 
boating. 

Our prices will be from $S.oo to $21.00 per week. 



Address 

B. F. 



Mount Livermore House. 



JEWELL, Proprietor, 

HOLDERNESS, N. H. 



XXXII 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 



Eclipse flatomobile Co., 



SOUTH EASTON, MASS. 



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ECLIPSE AUTOMOBILE. 

Our steam automobile is .\bsolutely Safe and Honestly 
Made. 

It has a speed rect)rd of a mile in i.^^^ :;-5 over a meas- 
ured mile on the State Road. 

A Water TuIh' Boiler tested to i,ooo pt)unds cold water 
pressure. 

NO TORCH RliOUIREiD TO START OUR BURNER. 

Perfect Steering (lear. Steel Frame, thorouj;hl\- luazcd, 
making ]iractically one piece, with no bolls or nuts to droji oil. 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. xxxiii 

Excursions from Boston along the North 
Shore and to Cape Ann. 

THK KE8T WAY by which the summer trav- 
el ' ^^ /^ eler can enjoy the beauties of the picturesque 
^^y^ r^^l^P^SS^^^y shores of Massachusetts north of Boston is to take 
^^'^■^~'-M' %k '/ ,r >«. a trip by the new and palatial steel steamer CAFE 
c^ESSsi^^Sn^fenl^rtij&c^jSi^ ANN, and the ]»opular steamer CITY OF 
J ^T! i - -- ^ " "-.■ "^■^"-^'^ -^"- r.T.OrCESTER of the 

'^'^-^^^^^v:*^^;^ Boston and Gloucester 

H Boston and filouccsicr Steamer. SleambOat CO. 

Each tciwu and city in this region has an historic interest, and is worth a visit for its own sake. 

THIS ROUTE atfords to tourists one of the finest ocean trijjs along the North Shore, a 
distance of thirty miles, with scenery unsurpassed. Some of the points of interest seen from the 
deck of the steamer are the Beautiful Islands of Boston Harbor, including Forts Independence and 
Winthrop, and Deer Islaod, and also a view of all the lighthouses of the Bay. Passing out of 
Boston Harbor, the first sight of Interest is the renowned summer resort of Nahant, its shores and 
beaches lined with cottages and summer residences. Next come the shores of Swampsoott and 
the (plaint old town of Marbleliead. Then passing Halfway Rock, where the crews of the fishing 
fleet cast their i)ennies on their outward trijis for good hick and safe return. Next in view come 
Lowell and Baker's Islands, off the shores of Beverly. Lowell Island, with its large hotel, makes 
one of the many l)eautiful spots on the coast. 

On Baker's Island are the Twin Lights so well known to mariners entering Salem and Beverly 
Harbors Then comes MancheBter-l»j-tlie-Sea, one of the most fashionable watering places on 
these shores. Then comes Magnolia, with its walks to Rafe's Chasm, and Norman's Woe Rock, 
made famous by Longfellow's poem " Tbe Wreck of the Hesperus." 

Entering the harbor gives one a fine view of the city of Gloucester, the most renowned fishing 
port in the world ; also noted for its drives and beautiful summer resorts for pleasure-seekers. The 
harbor is notcil for its l)eautifnl beaches for sea bathing, as well as for its boating and fishing. 

THE STEAMERS connect at Gloucester with the Gloucester anil Kockport Electrics, which 
run through Main street, out over Little Good Harbor Beach, across Brier Neck to the new summer 
re>'ort at Long Beach, a delightful ride of two and a half miles. At the Pavilion on Long Beach 
can always be obtained a first-class tish dinner. The traveler has ample opportunity to visit this 
charming spot, from which is had one of the finest views on the whole North Shore, refresh the 
inner man and take the steamer on her return to Boston. 

The Gloucester electrics oiler delightful rides, either to Rocky Neck on the east side of the 
harbor, or to Lanesville on the north side of the Gape. No ride in Essex County presents more 
diversified scenery of land and sea than flu- latter, and the stay of the steamer at (Jloiuruster allows 
sufficient time for its enjoyment. 

Steamers of this line leave North Side Central Wharf. 
See Boston daily papers for Time-table of Steamers. 

E. S. MERCHANT, Treas. and Gen'l Manager, Boston. 

(c) 



XXXIV 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 



T 



HE SOLOMON SANITARIUM, 

ATTLEBORO, MASS. 



For thf T real iiu'iit of ('aii<«TK, Tiiiihi 
anil Clironir I>i^^ea8e8. 





* lili!4 3i[i:1!:f !?11:SiPfs 







JAMES M. SOLOMON, M.D., mav be consulted daily, free of charge, at 2 A Heacnii Street. Hnstnn, 
Mass., from 10:;iO a m. to tJtOOp. m. All fciriiis of Tumor, Caneer, (liotli internal anil external) 
and Chronii- Diseases are successfully treated without pain, loss of hlood or knife. Coinidete 
Electric and Catarrhal Department; ■' X Kay" examination made, etc. 

The Sanitarium is beautifuUv situated, has sanitary iihunhing, pure spring water, trained 
nurses always in attendance, and is ;in iileal |>la<'e for |>atients reipiiring special care and scientific 
treatment. 'Terms reasonable, l-ni fmiliiM nilmniatioii .all i.r write 

JAMES M. SOLOMON, 

2 A Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. 

year Books and Spcciaiiics 

l*'or Hoarcl.s of Trade antl other bu.siness organizations, gotten 

lip in all the perfeetion tiiat tiic art of printinj;" can produce. 



by. 



J. D. HALL & CO., 



J 



193 WcsJmiristcr Street, Providence, R. I. 

The advertising always pays all of the expense of issuing 
such books, and usually a good profit is realized by the or- 
ganization doing the publishing. \\c furnish the advertising 
men. Corresiwndcnce solicited. 

Hest of references furnished from organizations for whom we 
li:i\-c i-i'^ucd books. 

OURNAL OF COMMERCE CO., 



101 SABIN STREET, 
PROVIDENCE, R. 

KoiiKKT Gkik\'K, 1 rciisiircr. 




PRINTERS 

OF BOOKS. 
CATALOGUES. AND 
ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF 
COMMERCIAL WORK. 



TVVPLNTIKTH CENTURY VACATION 



xxxv 



Edgartown Mass 

ONE OF THE MOST CHARMING OF OUR 

ISLAND Summer Resorts 




Bathing Beach, Edgartown. 

'T^ni-^ quaintness of the place lends an attraction that is a soin'ce of 
great interest to all who spend their vacation here. 




A Part of Edgartown Harbor, as seen from the Harbor View Hotel. 



XXXVl 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 



Edgartown, Mass. 

FOR A DELIGHTFUL CLIMATE. AND ALL OF THE PLEASURES THAT THE SEASHORE AFFORDS 
THIS ANCIENT TOA/N IS UVEXCELLED 




North \\'ater Street, Edgartown. 



Marhor Light, 
Kdgartown. 







Cliffy at (lay 
Mead. 




>urt on >oui h >lii.rc 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 



XXXVII 



New Bedford, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamboat Co. 



COMMENCING JUNE 10, 1900. 



Subject to Change Tpithoot Notice. 









Week 


Days. 




Sundays. 


FOR- 




A. M. i A. M. 1 p. M. 


P. M. 

5.25t 
6.45 

7.20 
7.45 


A. M. 


P. M. 


Nantucket. 


Leave 

New Heclford 


8.25 
9.4i 


10.20 
11.45 


2.25 
3.45 


8.25 
9.45 




Marttia's Vineyard, 


Woods Hole 




Cottage City. 

Edgartown. 

Vineyard Haven 

and Wood's Hole. 


t'ottai^e Citv 


10.25« 


12.45* 

i.iot 


4.30 


10.25* 




Arrive 










8.30 




NantiK-ket 


12.45 




6.45 


12.45 .... 




P. M. 


P. M. 


P. M. 


P. .M. 


p. M. P. M. 









Week Days. 




Siind 


ays. 

P.M. 






A. M. 


A. M. 


p. M. 


P. M. 


P. M. 


FROM 

Nantucket. 


Leave 




7.00 




1.00 


1.00 




Kilpartowil 

( ■uta;;f City 


6.05 
6.50 




Edgartown. 


9.20 


12.45* 
1.20t 


3.25* 


3.25* 




Cottage City, 
Vineyard Haven 
and Woods Hole. 


West Chop 


7.15 
7.55 

9.20 










10.05 
11.03 


2.05 
3..30 


4.05 
5.30 


4.05 
5.30 




Arrive 

New Bedford 








A. M. 


A. M. 


P. M. 


P. M. 


P. M. 


P.M. 


*Vinevar'i lliLzlilati'ls cm 


jtted. 















tOn and aflt-r .luly ;;n, k-aves New Bedford at 4.4.'3 p. m. 
^Carriages will connect fo and from West Chop. 

EXCURSION TICKETS. 

New Bedford to Cottage City and llitiirn, ;;ooil until i irtoi.er 31, lonn 

New Bedfoul to Nantucket and Return. :.:<n>d until .'^epteiuln-r :>u. I'.Miii 

CHAUNCEY G. WHITON, Agent. NEW BEDFORD, 



. Sl.dO 
. Si. Oil 

M ^ss. 



HOTEL HARBOR VIEW, Edgartown, Massachusetts. 




■?—■ •C'V^T'SJSr"" 



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Tlie hotel i <tuii|>;iiatively new ) i?- a r ran ;:•'(! in tlu- Inriii ot tun ohluniiM, r'Tiier tu corner, inakintr 
it possible Uiv all tlic rooms to receive a generous stipply o| pure air. with the water everywhere in 
sii;ht- r.r- ail. rovereil piazzas extend entirely around the house. The interior is clu'erfnl. and 
furni-^hrd Ihritutilioul in a coinfortable and home-like manner. The musie mom is a handsome, 
lar^e apartment, liiiht an<l airy, and finisluMl in North Carolina pine, with a tine Moor for dancintr. 

The capacity of the dinin^r-romn lias Ipcoti enlarged afratn tlie present vear tiy throwing out an 
alcove on the north side. No morlt-rn conv<'nienee is lackin^r. The house lias pas, open tirejilace* 
m the public rooms, bath and toilet rooms on each tloor. improved plumbinj;, perlect system of 
draina-re, smoking and billiard rooms. 

Kach room has a call-bell, and all be<ls are furnislied with the best hair mattresses. Pure- 
spring; water from a driven well sixty feet in depth sup]>lies the house. 

SAILINc;, KlsniMi, llAI'I[IN<i, rjdl.lINC, Ito^l.INC. 

For further information address F', A. DOUGI>.\S, Kdearlowu. MH^riaL-huM'tlH. 



XXXVIII 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 




TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. xxxix 



WE ARE 

SELLING 

TRY IT AND BE CONVINCED ! 



FAMILY GOAL Best Quality 




PROVIDENCE COAL, CO. 



PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



TJhurston ilfanufacturinff Co., 

Providence, S^. S, 

MANLKACTl.'REKS AND CONTRACTORS OF 

■ ■ Light Machinery . . 

The Thurston & Schott Inverted Milling Machine, Universal Sur- 
face and Cylindrical Grinding Machine, and small Circular Saws for 
metal, a specialty. 

FACTORY : 

Corner Eddy and Point Streets* 



XL TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 



Providence, Tall River and Rewport Steamboat Co. 

COMMENCING JUNE 26, 1900, 
The Famous Observation Steamer 

"MOUNT HOPE** 

Will leave Providence from Dyer Street Wharf, Foot of Hay Street, for 

NARRAGANSETT PIER and BLOCK ISLAND. 

Leave Providence 9 a. m. (WEEKDAYS:. Leave Providence 10 a. m. 1 SUNDAYS . 
Returning, leave Block Island 2.45 p. m., Nartai;ansett Pier, 4 p. m., week days and 
Sundays, touching at Newport each way. 

EXCURSION TICKETS, BIocR island and Return, $1.00. 
GOOD UNTIL SEPTEMBER s Children, = = 50 Cents. 

Commencing: JULY ist, Triple Daily Service to 

NEWPORT, 

Leaving Providence, week days, 9 a. m., 2 and 5 p. in. Sundays. 10 a. m., 2 an<l S p. ni. 
Leave Newport, week days, 7.15, 10.30 a. ni., 5 p. ni. Sundays, 8, 11.30a. ni., 5 p. ni. 

E.XCURSION TICKETS ONLY 60 CENTS. 
For Prudence and Conanicut :— 

Leave Providence at 5 \i. m., week days, and 8 p. 111., .Sumlavs. Leave New|Kiit 
7.15 a. m., week days, and S a. ni., .'Sundays. Kriday-- only, leave I'mviileiire <) a. 
ni., and Newport 5 p. ni. 

For Rocky Point, 

Kvery iiour "ii tiie liour, 9 a. m. to 5 ]i. ni., and 7. 30 p. m Return 15 niiiuUes pasl 
the hour, 1 1. 15 a. in. to 6.15 p. ni., then 7.45 and 10.10 p. 111. 

For Field's Point Every 30 Minutes, 

7, i|, 111 .1. 111., 1.1 .). V'. 'Ill' 'I 5-j ^ ".15. '1.45. N ]<■ in. 

Every 30 Minutes to 6rescent Park, 

7, 10, and every 30 minutes to 8.30 p. ni. lor SILVER SPRINd and RIVER- 
SIDE, 7, ti, in.^o nnd hniirlv uiilil 5.30 p. 111., then (1.15. 6.45, S p. 111. 

For Bristol and Fall River, 

( Kroin wharf foot of Power street) 3 p. 111., week day>, S |). ni.. Sundays. (See 
lime talile at ticket office). 

A. H. \VAT50N, President and (ieneral Manager. 

B. BUFFUM, 5upt Iraiisportation. 

SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE. 



TWENTIETH CENTURV VACATION. 



XLI 



D'WOLF INN. BRISTOL, R. I. 









h^ijy rp., '-L-lL iiLH|_l ai_ai.^llr<§|F^:| 



J m.', »i!u f ■ us:: mr^ir 






This hotel, which has been built but three years, has every modern convenience, and accommodations for 
two hundred guests. 

The rooms are very large, airy and light and are all provided with a muniy closet. The plan of the hotel 
provides suites of two or three rooms 
and private bath, making a conven- 
ient and delightful arrangement for 
a family party. Every item of fur- 
nishing throughout the house is new 
this season and has been selected 
with 3 view to comfort as well as 
taste. 

The D'Wolf Inn is situated on 
Bristol Harbor, and is separated 
from the water's edge by a foity-fimt 
lawn. The piazzas are very bt' 
and two hundred and fifteen feet 
long, and provide hours nf solid 
comfort. 

The management are giving 
special attention to the cuisine and 
dining room service Bristol Har- 
bor is where the famous yachts, Co- 
luTibia, Defender, Vigilant, Glo- 
riana and others first saw the water, 
and the hotel pia/zas afford an ani- 
mated spectacle of yachts and races 
during the summer season. The 
fishing is unsurpassed, (iolfing is one of the leading pastimes. Music and dancing in the hotel. Correspon- 
dence is solicited regarding rates, selection of rooms, etc. ^ ^ SKINNER & CO.. Pro|.ri.'t»rM. 




vir-:w i-KOM riAzzA. 



XLII 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 



Seaconnet Steamboat Go. 

J. A. PETTEY. General Manager. 
P. O. Box 1053. Providence. R. I. 




Steamer AWASHONKS, "Queen of the Seaconnet River." 



Time Table on and after June 25, 1900. 
Steamer Awashonks Steamer Queen City 



Will leave I'KOVIDKNCK. foot of I'lanet street, 
Kast .SUle, for SEACUXNET I'OINT, daily, 
isuiulays excepted;, at 9 o'clock a. m. 

liristol 10.15 a. in. 

Tiverton 10.50 a. m. 

Hetnrnint:, I-E.WE 

Si'aconni-t 3.00 p.m. 

IMerces Wharf S.85 p. in. 

Ilnmiilireys & Cliiirch'8 Wharf, Tiv- 
erton 3.65 p. m. 

liristol 4.35 p.m. 

Sun, lavs, LEAVE 

rroviileiice 10.00 a. m. 

Seai'onnet I'oint :l.llll p. m. 

PIANO ON BOARD FOR USE OF PATRONS 



Will leave SE.\CONNET POINT daily, (Sundays 
exiepteili, for PKOVIDENCE, at 6.i0 
o'clock a. ni. 

Tierce's Wharf 7.15 a. in. 

Newtown ... 7.35 a. m. 

Humphreys & Church's Wharf, Tiv- 
erton...'. 7.50a. m. 

Keturninir, leave riidVlDENCE, foot 
of I'lanet street. East .side -J.SO j). lu. 

Humphreys A ( luinli's Wharf, Tiv- 
erton . . ." 4.40 p. m. 

Sundays, leave I'UOVinEXrE at 30 a. m.. 

stojipin^; at Hristol. Tiverton and Pierce's 
Wharf. Hetnrn, via .\\\aslumks at 3 p. m. 



■MATINrK K.XC'lilCSION KviTv .Siiliiiihty Afternoon. Kxcurwlon to Brlatol dally. 

.Ml Trciclit must l.e ileliveieil '.'0 Minutes hefore sallinp:. -Ml Frci(;lu (' i>. I). All Baggajic must 
It,' pl:iiti)v iii:irked to .h'stinati.in. 

SHORE DINNERS llS^I^N^.^x^^P^iSV^.'^oSir^^^- 



IKIeilliier AW.XSIION K.'S will -t..l> :it I'mt. e' 
Will land at .Seai-onnet, weather permittini;. 



Wliarr, liverl.in and lln~t.d. 



E.XCURSION R.ATES. 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 



XLIII 



Barbour's Heights Cottage, 

p. O. Address: WICKFORD, R. I. 



THIS new house is 
located on Narra- 
gansett Bay, near 
Plum Beach, and it is 
reached by the Sea View 
I ine of electric cars. 

The house is modern 
in eve ry respect : broad 
piazzas: every room has 
a water view; hot water: 
heat. Beach about 600 
feet from the cottage. 
Milk and vegetables fur- 
nished from the home 
t.irm Pure Spring water. 

Barbour's Heights 
Farm consists of 190 

acres, 80 acres of which 
have been platted espe- 
cially for summer cot- 
tages. The highest point 
on the plat is 202 feet 
above the waters of the 
bay. For parliculars ad- 
<lress 




^U 



til El 

iiiiiniir 



t1 

1» 



F. P. W. TEFFT, Proprietor, 



Wickford, R. I. 



New River Steam Coal 

THE BEST STEAMING COAL 
MINED IN THE WORLD. 

Interstate Coal Co. 



. . SOLE AGENTS . . 

Main Office, 41 Weybosset Street, 
Yard Office, 184 Dyer Street, 

Branch Yard, 275 South Water Street, 
PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



Telephones 

774 

794 

2097 



Our Anthracite Coal, Mined Specially for Family Trade, 
is the Best in the Market. 

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. CARLOAD OR CARGO. 




WATCH HtLL. R. I. 

Best Located and Largest Hotel at Watch Hill. 
Accommodates 400 People. GOLF. 

GEO. C. HOWE. Proprietor. 




' l5>-tlio-SeH.*' (>[>ei>s its ''ith : 



on under the ni.iii.igcnient of 



ATI.ANTK' IIOl SE, WiiU-h Hill' 
Mk. C. \V. Rlsski.i . 

'Die Atlan(i> House is one ni ilie oUlcsi am\ hrsi known hotels nt Watch Hill. It is situated on high 
Kroimd, cuminandin;; all water views, ha.s .spacious |>i:i/;ras, kiood lawn tennis ^ronnds, and is a delightful place 
for children. Drainage is jierfecl. The house has electric hells. Good music. The hotel is near the beach, 

their absence." 
cs reasonable. 



which is one of (he best and safest in the country. Mos>tuitocs and tlics arc " conspicuous by thci 
The tabic is maintained al the highest stnndarti of excellence. Iwciuy stvt-n h.ilu ("toll Courst- . f'riccs 

C. W. RUSSELL, Atlantic House, Watch Hill, R. I. 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 



XLV 



NEW LONDON STEHMBOAT eO. 



THE FAVORITE ROUTE! 



On and after June 30, 1900, 

THE 

Steamer "BLOCK ISLAND" 




WILL MAKE DAILY TRIPS (Sundays excepted) between N..rwich and New London, 
Conn., and the seaside resorts at Watch Hill and Block Island, leaving Norwich about 8.00 
a. m. , and New London on arrival of morning trains, arriving at Block Island in time for 
dinner, and reluming in time to make all train and steamboat connections. 

Connections will be made at New London with Central Vermont Raihvay from and for 
all points north and west, and Springfield, Mass.; with New York, New Haven and Hartford 
Railroad from and for New York and the west and south (via New York), New Haven and 
Hartford, Conn., and with the New York steamers of the Norwich Line, from and for New 
York, the south and west: and at Watch Hill via Stonington and Watch Hill Kerry, with 
steamers of the Stonington Line. 

Hy this route passengers save all expense for transfer of person or baggage, lietween the 
steamer running from and to the wharf adjoining the Union Passenger Station and wharf of 
Norwich Line of steamers at New London. 

D. MACKENZIE, General Manager, New London, Conn. 
J. A. SOUTHARD, General Passenger Agent. 



XLVI 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 



Watch Hill House, 

Watch Hill, R, L 

The Watch Hill House opened its twenty-ninth season June 20tli, 1900. This well 
known hotel is located on the highest and most central ground of any hotel at the Hill, with 
a frontage of one hundred and sixty-five feet and a wing of one hundred and twenty-five feet. 
Encompassed by broad piazzas, it furnishes a most delightful view of old ocean. 

Additions have been made to the dining room, giving now a seating capacity for four 
hundred people. 

The hotel now has ten suites of rooms, with baths and toilets attached, also a sufficient 
number of public baths. 

The house has been painted and decorated inside and out, and is now in every respect 
one of the best equipped hotels on the New England coast. 

The main building is four stories high, topped by a looliout tower, from whicli a fine 
view for miles around can be obtained of the surrounding country. 

Hot and cold sea baths and good surf bathing. Golf. 

For further particulars apply to Watch Hill House, Watch Hill, K. I. 

IVIRS. A. R. HALE, Proprietor. 
D. C. BABCOCK, Manager. 



^. 



C. W. Johnson, Hl^ E M 

PROP. 



\WAii|| 1111,1, is a peninsular, h.-\ving the .-\tlantic I )cean on the East and .South, and 
Little Narr.igansett Hay on the West. 

It is connected with Westerly by a good drive road and electric car line. 

.\ line and perfectly safe bathing beach is within one minute's wall; from hotel. 

Eour hour's ride from New York City via New Haven Shore Line Railroad 10 Stonington, 
or by Stonington .Steamboat Line. The steamer Watch Hill connects with all trains and 
boats at Stonington. Those wishing to go entirely by car leave train at Westerly and lake 
trolley six miles to Watch Hill. Ticket and check through to Watch Hill. 




TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 



XLVII 




STEAMER "WATCH HILL." 

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The PLIMPTON is pleas.iiitly siliLitud near'llie bay, and tr.im ils windows and broad verandas commands 
extensive views of Bay and Ocean. The Hotel is in fine order and well cmiiuped, the owners hast year expend- 
ing about Ten Thousand Dollars in improvements. Twenty-seven-hole Golt Links. The Elite Hungarian Or- 
chestra will furnish music. 
GILBERT JOHNSON, Manaser. Plimpton House. W.atch Hill, R. I. DIXON HOi:.'^E. Westerly. R. I. 



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TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 



HOTEL PILGRIM, Plymouth, mass. 



H. A. ROBERTS, MANAGER. 








HOTEL riLGRIM, KLYMOUTH, MASS. 



For many years the Hotel Pilgrim, situated at the head of Ply- 
mouth Heach, and connected with the village and the N. Y., N. H. and 
Hartford R. R. station by finely equipped electric street cars, has been 
a popular and well patronized summer resort, commanding a most 
charming and picturesque view of old ocean, Plymouth Harbor, Kings- 
ton, ]_)u\bury, Manomet, Gurnet Light, the National and Standish 
monuments, Pilgrim Hill, etc. The woodland drives, beautiful lakes 
and ponds, unexcelled fresh and salt water fishing, bathing, sailing, etc., 
together with excellent cuisine, experienced clerks and attendants, with 
a first-class li\ery stable make this hostelry very desirable for families. 
The grounds are es|)ecially adai)ted for all kinds of outdoor sports, and 
children have abundant opportunity for healthful exercise and pleasure. 
The hotel is fitted with steam heat, baths, bowling alleys, billiard hall 
and laundry, and is comfortably furnished tiirougliout. Telephone and 
mail service are lirstclass. The water supply is abundant and of the 
best (|uality ; the house has jierfect drainage. ICxcellent train service 
with lioston. I'arties leaving New 'S'ork via Fall River line are due at 
the hotel for breakfast at 7:30 ne.xt .\. m. 

i\ll desired information may be obtained by ailtlressing 

H. A. RouiiKT.s, Hotel Pilgrim, Plymouth, Mass. 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 



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INDEX 



HOTELS, TIME TABLES, BUSINESS 



VAGE 

Allantic House, Watch Hill, R. I XLIV 

Almy Water Tube Boiler Co., Prov. . .XXVIII 
Barbour's Heights Cottage, Wickford.R. I. XLIII 

Bay View House, Jamestown, R. I xiv 

Boston & Maine R. R xix 

Boston & Gloucester Steamboat Co ..xxxiii 
Broadway Central Hotel, 3d page cover and Lii 
Providence Bryant & Stratton Business 

College 2d page cover 

Centre \'illa. North Conway, N. H XXII 

Contents 4 

Cold Spring House XI 

D'Wolf Inn, Bristol, R. I XLi 

D. M. Palt & Co.. Providence, R. I L 

East Greenwich Academy ix 

Eclipse Automobile Co., So. Easton, 

Mass XXXII 

Edgaitown. Martha's Vineyard xxxv 

P^ireka Hotel, Block Island xvii 

Friends' School I 

(Gardner House, Jame'town, R. I xiv 

Gaucher Eugene, Providence, R. I LI 

Greene's Inn vi 

Hall J. D. & Co xxxiv 

Horsford's .^cid Phosphate.. . .2d page cover 

Hotel Columbia, Watch Hill, R. I XLVi 

Hotel Eastman, North Conway, N. H.. .X.XI 
Hotel Harbor View, Edgattown, Mass. ,.xx.\vii 

Hotel Pilgrim, Plymouth, Mass. XLVIII 

Intervale House, Intervale, \. H \.xi\- 

Iron Mountain House, Jackson, N.H., xxvii 

Interstate Coal Co., Providence XLIII 

Kearsarge Hall, North Conway, N. Il.,\xni 

Larkin House, Watch Hill. R. I XLiv 

L. A. Tillinghast Catering Co., Prov. .. viil 

Mechanical Fabric Co I 

Mt. Livermore House, Holderness, N. II.xx.x 

New Hotel Weirs, Weirs, N. H xxix 

New Hotel Gladstone vii 

New London Steamboat Co XLV 



VAC E 

New Rockingham Hotel . - n- 

Ocean View Hotel, Block Island xv 

Olney Joseph & Son .xxiv 

Pendexter Mansion, Intervale, N. II. ..xxiii 
Plimpton Hotel, Watch Hill, R. I. . . . xivii 

Pomroy Coal Co., Providence xxxviii 

Prospect House, Jamestown, R.I li 

Providence Coal Co xxxi.x 

Randall House, North Conway, N. H . .xxii 

Russell Cottages, Kearsarge, N. H xxv 

Solomon Sanitarium ... .x.x.xiv 

Steamer Danielson xviii 

Surf Hotel, Block Island x\ii 

.Squani Lake House, Ashland, N. N..xx\iii 

The .Arlington vi 

The Allen Restaurant, Newport xiii 

The Hygeia Hotel, Block Island xvi 

The Imperial m 

The Kearsarge, North Conway, N. N. . . x.x 

The Massasoit m 

The Mathewson iv 

The New Ridge, Kearsarge, N. H xx\'i 

The Northern, Littleton, N. H Lt 

The Pettaquamscutt vii 

The Pequawket, Intervale, N. H xxili 

The Thorndike, Jamestown, R. I xii 

Thurston Mfg. Co., Providence xxxjx 

Time Table, Newport & Wickford R. K. 

& Steamboat Co x 

Time Table, New Bedford, Martha's 

Vineyard and Nantucket Steamlii>at 

Co xxxvu 

Time ral)lc, Narragansett Pier R. R.. . . v 
Time Talile, Providence, Fall River and 

Newport Steamboat Co xL 

Time Table Seaconnet Steamboat Co. . . XLJi 

Trilby Shoe Polish \iii 

Walk-Over .Shoe 4th page cover 

Watch Hill House, Watch Hill, R. I . . .xi vi 
W.Ttch Hill Steamer xi \]i 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 



Pure Water Supply! 

D.M.PATT&CO. 

Oftite Telephone IK. 
Residence Telephone 2691-5, Providence. 

CONTRACTORS FOR 

Artesian, 
Driven and 
Hydraulic 

Dry Wells Deepened 




WELLS 



M. PATT. 



Also Drilling for Hydraulic 

Elevators. 

Towns and Villages supplied with 

Pure Water. 

We are equipped to do work in 
all parts of the United States. 



Correspondence Solicited. 



Office, Builders and Traders' Exchange, 

75 Westminster Street. 
Slorehouse, no. 174 Indiana Hoc, Providence, R. T. 

If you are interested in obtaining your own water supply from underground sources 
would l.e very much pleased to call on you and answer any questions in regard to water 
How to Get' it. We are the best equipped tirm in New England for doing well work of 
kind, and at the lowest reasonable rates. We 
have just built a machine with which we can 
drill a well inside of a building without any in- 
convenience to you, since it can be taken through 
a door or window. We are prepared to Deepen 
Dry Wells, and if you have a w ell that runs dry, 
wc can deepen it without taking it up. 

The following are a few of the parlies for 
whom we have sunk .Artesian Wells, and to 
whom we refer: Brown & Sharpe Mfg. Co., 
Providence Brewing Co., Manufacturers' Build- 
ing Co., Wm. (Irosvenor, (".ranger Koundry i\: 
Machine Co., Cory & Reynolds, Billings Bros., 
Frederick E. Perkins, Proviilence, K. 1.: \i lean 
Foundry Co., Hand Brewing Co., I'awtucket, K. 
I.: Eastern Maine Insane Asylum, Bangor, Me., 
A. M. Ilerrod, Edison Elec. Lighting Co., 
Emerson Shoe Co., Brockton Street Railway 
Co., R. B. Grover & Co., Brockton, Mass.; 

Emerson Mfg. Co., Lawrence, Mass.; Whitins Bros., Whitins, Mass.; Essex Wood Turn 
Co., Essex, Conn.: G. A. Wilcox, Madison, Conn.: Uncas Paper Co., Norwich, Con 
Na'n'tic Woolen Co., Vantic, Conn.; King Philip Brewing Co., Fall River, Mass. 



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D. IVl. PATT. 



TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION, 



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The Northern, Littleton. N. H. 



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Is one of the strikingly modern, 
all-the-year-round hotels of New 
Hampshire, situated on the main 
street of one of the most beautiful 
and thrifty villages of New Eng- 
land, within one minute's walk of 
the railroad depot. The house con- 
tains forty-five sleeping rooms, with 
liaths, all of which are supplied with 
new furniture and bedding, and the 
floors of these rooms, together with 
the waiting rooms, hallways, etc., 
are covered with tapestry and vel- 
vet carpels. The house is heated 
throughout with steam, is supjilied 
with electric lights and speaking 
lubes, and a passenger elevator runs 
from the first to the fifth floor. 

First-class livery connected, and 
the prices for teams are very mod- 
erate. Cuisine the very best. 

The Northern is a very desirable 
hotel for summer boarders. 



/, C. Richardson. Proprietor. 

Prospect Bouse, Damcsiown. 

The l'ros])?ct House lias been newly renovate<l for tlie season of 1000. Hooms 
with or without l)oard at Keasonable Prices, Special terms for the season. 

The cuisine will be up-to-date in every particular and the service prompt. The 
Sanitary Arrangements are perfect. Rooms to let in annex cottages with board in 
the Hotel. 

The Livery .Stable is convenient to the Hotel and patrons can enjoy the De- 
lightful Drives and Heautiful .Scenery of Conanicut Island, the (iem of the Bay. 

Write for terms. Transients $2.00 jier day. 

CAPT. W. C. HALL, Proprietor, 

JAMESTOWN, R. I. 

EUGENE GAUCHER, 

yCrtisti'c iJesi'^ner and Si/ustrator. 

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Fine Black and White DRAWINGS . . . 

PORTRAITS ... for all Illustrative Purposes. 

207 Westminster Street, Providence, R. I. 




JUL 9 1900 

Lii TWENTIETH CENTURY VACATION. 

BROADWAY CENTRAL HOTEL. 

(HISTORY). 

LOCATED opposite Bond Street is one of the largest public 
houses in New York. Ou this memorable site I,a Farge, a 
sagacious French investor, built the La Farge House, which 
■was opened in 1S56. Back of the Hotel stood Tripler Hall, the 
scene of Jenny Lind's triumphs The hall was remodeled into 
Burton's New London Theatre, then the largest in New York, and 
subsequently into the Winter Garden, where Edwin Booth pla\-ed 
Hamlet for one hundred consecutive nights. In 1S69 after La 
Farge's death, and the burning of the Winter Garden, the entire 
property was acquired by the late E. S. Higgins, the carpet manu- 
facturer, who erected here the most palatial and substantial hotel 
in New York, at first known as the Southern Hotel, and afterwards 
as the Grand Central Hotel. The great dining hall occupies the 
locality made famous by Jenny Lind and Edwin Booth, where 
Adelina Patti made her first public appearance, and where Rachel 
met her first American audience. The house in 1S92 passed into 
the proprietorship of the Hon. Tilly Hajnes, who had made a 
notable success of the oM United States Hotel at Boston. The 
original cost of the Broadway Central was |2, 000,000, and nearly a 
quarter of a million more was spent by Mr. Haynes in thoroughl)' 
renovating," refitting, refurnishing and reorganizing the entire 
property. It is a solid and magnificent structure, with seven stories 
above the main floor, and very spacious and comfortable public 
rooms. It is admirabU- protected against fires, having massive 
stone and brick division walls once in eighteen feet, throughout 
the main building, with broad halls running the entire length of 
the building from Broadway to Mercer Street, and numerous stair- 
ways together with every possible protection against fire. It is in 
an interesting part of the city, close to Bleecker street, the Latin 
(juarterof New York ; Washington Square, the site of the triumphiae 
arch ; Lafayette and .Astor Places, with their libraries, and the centrl 
of the publishers' quarter; the Bowery, with its picturesque human- 
ity, anil the Cooper Institute. Only a few blocks north is the 
group of buildings pertaining to Grace Church, one of the hand- 
somest sights in the metropolis. In front of the hotel flow the vast 
and impressive human tides of Broadway. 

One of the most important, and sometimes the most expensive 
things in a great city is the matter of transportation, getting about 
from one point to anothir. In this respect no hotel in New York 
has the convenience of such a central location, together with the 
rapid and economical transfer to all points, as the Broadway 
Central Hotel. 

The new Broadway cable lines, with their branches and exten- 
sions, now cover all the great avenues; the new Lexington Avenue 
line, coming down from Harlem, on the east side of the Grand 
Cen'ral Station brings passengers direct from 421! St., to the door, 
while the Broadway line from the Battery to Central Park passes 
every fashionable store, theatre and attraction of the city. The new 
Columbus and Lenox Ave. lines take passengersclear up to Grant's 
Tomb, ILirlem River ami High Bridge, while ' olh the Third and 
Sixth Ave. Elevated Roa<ls, one block in front and one in the rear, 
give every possible facility for reaching all suburban locations at 
the least possible charge. The Cross-Town cars pass Broadway. 
Ixith above and below the hotel, connect directly with every foreign 
and coastwise steamer, all the ferries. Battery, and Brooklyn Briilge 
trains. J\!ca(i King's Jluiidbook 0/ New York City /Sp^. 



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Shoes 




Two=thirds lor more) of your vacation will 
be spent in your shoes; one=third (or less) in 
your bed. 

ARE YOUR SHOES AS COMFORTABLE AS 
YOUR BED? 

Do they look well and wear well? Are they 
stylish? 

WALK=OVER shoes are made to fill all these 
requirements. 

They can be purchased in every city and lar^e town 
in New lEn^land. If unable to obtain in your town 
we will send by express paid on receipt of $.5.75. 

Geo. E. Keith Company, .. Makers, 

CAMPELLO, MASS. 



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